It’s happening quietly, without any breaking news alerts or public statements. Powerful forces are working to scrub the internet clean, wiping away records, removing access to archived content, and rewriting our collective digital memory.
For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time - since October 8-10 - since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.
No websites on the Internet are being archived in ways that are available to users.
Brownstone.org reports: It’s not always about being censored or not. Today’s algorithms include a range of tools that affect searchability and findability. For example, the Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump racked up an astonishing 34 million views before YouTube and Google tweaked their search engines to make it hard to discover, while even presiding over a technical malfunction that disabled viewing for many people. Faced with this, Rogan went to the platform X to post all three hours.
The trouble on Archive.org began on October 8, 2024, when the service was suddenly hit with a massive Denial of Service attack that not only took down the service but introduced a level of failure that nearly took it out completely.
The service has yet to resume any public display of mirroring of any sites on the Internet.
The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely.
We apologize for the impact of these library services being unavailable.
The Declaration of the Future of the Internet makes that very clear: the Internet should be "Governed through the multi-stakeholder approach, whereby governments and relevant authorities partner with academics, civil society, the private sector, technical community and others." All of these stakeholders benefit from the ability to act online without leaving a trace.
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