Why discourage the preservation of information? Local backups may seem foolish now but we'll be happy for all the people who did it later on when these archive organizations get infiltrated and start editing history.
For that purpose, it's good. But for the purpose of being able to prove something, it's less so, as it's worth as much as a screenshot which can be edited.
But using a service that defers to the enemy is helping them.
It really doesn't help them when I use them, as they don't earn any money when I ask them to store this or that URL. That is why they have to fundraise.
Something on your local hard drive is not proof nor redundancy, unless you want to work for UN Women and cite your C-drive in references.
Why discourage the preservation of information? Local backups may seem foolish now but we'll be happy for all the people who did it later on when these archive organizations get infiltrated and start editing history.
For that purpose, it's good. But for the purpose of being able to prove something, it's less so, as it's worth as much as a screenshot which can be edited.
It really doesn't help them when I use them, as they don't earn any money when I ask them to store this or that URL. That is why they have to fundraise.
How? Best they can do is remove the stuff that we put there, but that just puts you in the position as when you only used archive.is