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[–] [email protected] 205 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What kind of dick smack attacks the internet archive!!!!

[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago (2 children)

People that dont want their history revealed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Don't they honour deletion requests

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Yes but I believe the requests themselves are actually publicly available knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it depends on the circumstances. I work for a publisher and submitted a request for one of my clients copyrighted books to be removed from the archive, and they took it down the same day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think they'd legally have to as well if something violated GDPR

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I don't think so, reading their terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

No idea. Hope not

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The same people that harass librarians and burn books en masse, is my first guess.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Gimme an M !!!

"M" !!!

Gimme an A !!!

A !!!

Gimme a G !!

G

..............

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Magneto could just erase all the magnetic hard drives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I read this fully in Ace Ventura 2 intonation.

[–] freeman 6 points 6 months ago

Copyright holders.