cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9428237
Many publishers and news organizations, including the New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, and more, are continuing to block the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from archiving journalism.
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Censorship and authoritarianism are growing, along with pressure to alter reporting and erase facts. Journalists frequently face death threats, and many have died across the past year for their work. The least we can do out of respect during these horrors is to shore up the Wayback Machine’s neutral third party preservation efforts so these brave journalists’ work is not lost. Their reporting must remain accessible not only to their colleagues and loved ones, but to the eyes of history.
The Wayback Machine makes every online news outlet it archives more resilient against pressure to remove stories that threaten the powerful. It is in the interest of any news outlet that still does real journalism to champion such an ally in times like these. It shouldn’t be this hard to find a way to independently preserve the news. We call on the leadership of major media outlets to commit to working with the Internet Archive and getting all the news in the Wayback Machine now!
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