That's been my nagging fear about them too. Obviously it's not an option they'd want to exercise frequently, but it could be devastating to individual targets.

(ofc this is a risk with the Wayback Machine, who also has a policy for honoring takedown request. But the Internet Archive's board and executives are known people with reputations)

On modifying bits, see perhaps this comment from a discussion ~8 months ago:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006#47100204

* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...