as many of you know from the Sarah Butts fiasco and the recent arbitrary account requirements to view content that goes against the corrupt WHO, archive.org is highly unreliable, however archive.org has blocked all images under media.8ch.net from appearing in their archives.
I have emailed them and they refuse to remove the block and restore everything it despite the obvious overreaching being pointed out, demanding irrelevant evidence on how the block is questionable.
Due to the apparent corruption at archive.org in the wake of the Wuhan virus bullshit, the only thing that may make a difference would be a change in management.
I hope to fucking god that with the exception being CP discovered on their servers and subsequently reported to the cops, that they don't delete excluded content in case it contains evidence of something illegal
Yep, somebody should develop an offline archive program. At the very least you can take screenshots, even if those aren't fully reliable.
There is a lot of software that can do that, including an own file format for saving websites called WARC: https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving
Maybe there is even a possibility to host an own archive website. The folks over at TD could be interested in it as well (archive.win?) https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer https://github.com/harvard-lil/perma
Part of the point of using online archives is that they can be reasonably trusted to not have been tampered with.
I can run a wget mirror and edit the fuck out of everything. If everyone else's archive is missing, my doctored archive becomes the only source of truth.
Good point. If anything, this is an argument for making multiple archives with multiple methods. Why only archive.is/today? When archive.org is censoring and archive.is/today shuts down one day (just 50 bucks a week over liberapay?), a third or forth reasonably trusted service for simultaneous use would help. If needed, one of them could be from communities.win or something.
That's a clearly superior solution when it comes to preserving information for personal use, but I don't think it would hold up as proof of history or evidence of lies. I'm not great at computers, but I don't see how it'd be possible to locally store data in a format that cannot be altered by the user - and if it were possible, would it be in a form that provides a desirable user experience?