Behind the Complaints: Investigation Into Suspicious Pressure on Archive.today
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The story investigates suspicious pressure on Archive.today through a series of complaints, with the discussion highlighting the site's response to these complaints and potential coordinated efforts to target the site.
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> Moreover, they hinted that Archive.today had been targeted by a campaign of “serial” complaints, supposedly from French organizations, sent to various companies and institutions that could potentially harm the site. They even shared a link demonstrating a complaint similar to the one we had received.
Shows why intermediary-liability laws are so insidious - most intermediaries would simply minimize legal risk and censor anyone that someone complains over. Entirely predictable when not censoring risks jail, while censoring too much carries zero risk.
In fact it has been predicted and loudly warned about before the passage of every such law, so the only possible conclusion is that censorship of law-abiding websites was the intention.