alt Hacker NewsThis is why archive.is was created. Should we stop trying to hunt down and punish its creator and support it as the extremely useful project that it is?
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philistine • today at 12:05 PM
The creator can maintain anonymity. The creator does not deserve to continue being celebrated when they embarked on a DDOS campaign using the traffic of archive.is against a journalist trying to uncover their identity. By these actions, they have shown to be capricious, vindictive, and willing to ensnare their users in their DDOS of others. Whoever they are, they’re terrible.
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Agreed, and if archive.is goes down, archive.org becomes the de facto monopoly in web archival.
That's a problem because archive.org honors removal requests from site owners. Buy an old domain and you can theoretically wipe its archived history clean.