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Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

555 points · 436 comments · latein

  1. cluckindan · · focus · HN ↗
    This is a welcome development.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

    1. sunaookami · · focus · HN ↗
      That&#x27;s not a reason to censor it at the state level.
      1. gpm · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; including the site using editors&#x27; and readers&#x27; computers to run a denial-of-service attack

        This seems like sufficient justification not only to censor it at a state level, but to criminally prosecute any individual who visits the site after finding out about it - and thus knowingly joins in DDOS attacks.

        1. Toslink · · focus · HN ↗

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