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Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

555 points · 436 comments · latein

cluckindan · 1789893092 · focus · HN ↗
This is a welcome development.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...
1. sunaookami · 1789893623 · focus · HN ↗
  That's not a reason to censor it at the state level.
  1. cluckindan · 1789904852 · focus · HN ↗
    Why not?
    mitxela · 1789906103 · focus · HN ↗
    Why is it? You don't get to censor important sources of information and then literally just cite "why not?" as the reason.
    ctenb · 1789907135 · focus · HN ↗
    The linked wiki page lists the reasons. You can't just say these are not good reasons without saying why
    mitxela · 1789907895 · focus · HN ↗
    Which one of them justifies the government putting you in prison for accessing the information?
    iamnothere · 1789910103 · focus · HN ↗
    “Protecting democracy” or something Orwellian like that
    mitxela · 1789911667 · focus · HN ↗
    archive.is protects democracy and that's why it must be illegal to access?
    iamnothere · 1789924154 · focus · HN ↗
    I mean that’s probably what they believe, the idea is to shape favored outcomes by denying their voters access to information.

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