Ahh, this is great. I was already seriously impressed by the amount of amateur radio content on the Internet Archive. I'm happily surprised to see some solicitation for even more content! Passing this along to my relevant communities/clubs/etc. (also just emailed one possible place to archive :))
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#23The IA has really lost its reputation as an archive by choosing to remove content down for political purposes. They see themselves as publishers rather than an archive.
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#25As far as I'm concerned the IA can stick this up their arse. They REFUSE to acknowlege my request to have a personal website that they've managed to archive removed. It's a person blog that I want online so I can give the URL to family and friends, but I keep it out of Google etc with robots.txt. But once during an upgrade of the backend software I stuffed up the robots.txt and they crawled it until I fixed it up. Wi…
I suggest you publishing something againts their political agenda, and they will remove and censor it asap
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#27As far as I'm concerned the IA can stick this up their arse. They REFUSE to acknowlege my request to have a personal website that they've managed to archive removed. It's a person blog that I want online so I can give the URL to family and friends, but I keep it out of Google etc with robots.txt. But once during an upgrade of the backend software I stuffed up the robots.txt and they crawled it until I fixed it up. Wi…
You picked the dumbest possible method to share something privately with family and friends but it's the Internet Archive's issue to fix? A robots.txt provides zero protection for a public website.
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#28The IA has really lost its reputation as an archive by choosing to remove content down for political purposes. They see themselves as publishers rather than an archive.
What did they remove?
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#29The IA has really lost its reputation as an archive by choosing to remove content down for political purposes. They see themselves as publishers rather than an archive.
I attempted to google to guess what you meant.
I found: (1) they recently removed KiwiFarms; (2) in 2020, they began labeling certain pages with "fact checks"; (3) they remove content by request of the site owner or by copyright complaint.
Of those, (2) seems the most political, but it's not removing content. Was there something else you had in mind?
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#30Probably totally digress, but I wish IA can organize their digital library slightly better. One day I was checking some manga books by ISBN on IA just out of curiosity. And for some reason, it put the ISBNs for all the volumes of a manga into one single entry ( https://archive.org/details/isbn_1919979003907 , check "ISBN" metadata section) and unsurprisingly, the actual content is only one volume, vol.43 (not even vo…
On a given day I'm moving tens of thousands of items around to make them easier to find. I'm sure I'll get to your section sooner or later.
Thank you for your service.