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  • I disagree with your disagreement :p

    It is a common manipulative method of praising something right before landing a substantive blow on it as a way lending your argument credibility.

    Anonymouse has the most wonderful posts I have ever read, however I believe in this case he is down playing the threat to the owner of Archive.today that is represented by doxing them. Snowden isn’t hiding in Russia because he loves the weather. Assange didn’t hide in the Columbian Embassy because he liked their exercise bike. There’s a reason that the person who released the Panama Papars is only know as John Doe. And why can’t Francesca Albanese’s bank cards no longer work. Amongst the powerful elites are psychopaths.

    Acting as if doxing someone who undermines the elite’s grip on PR is some benign act and irrelevant to the owner of archive.today’s reaction is a leading distortion of the reality of the situation.


  • I do wonder what the motivation of gyrovague to dox the owner of archive.today was?

    From Hacker News:

    “Gyrovague”, the author of the post we’re commenting under has for reasons unknown engaged in targeted harassment of the owner of “archive.today”. Now the owner of archive.today is attempting a rather lazy DoS attack against gyrovague.com. A rather mild response to gyrovague attempting to bring the archive.today owner physical harm by spreading potentially identifying information about them.

    There’s really very little to be said about this whole thing besides that Gyrovague should try to be a less awful person in the future.

    It is relevant to this discussion to mention that archive.today keeps in the public sphere that which governments and powerful people have scrubbed out of general awareness by applying various forms of pressure. So we should expect them to come under pressure too.

    Maybe related, maybe not: Wikipedia’s owner came under pressure it seems to muddy the debate around the genocide in Gaza. Archive.today will hold a record of the propaganda warfare in mainstream media and more ephemeral web content like videos/blogs uploaded from within Gaza. So by excluding this particular archive Wikipedia seems to be prioritising media sources that are manipulated by governments and the powerful.




  • IRL not all communication is verbal. Regardless of any idealised notion of online discussion boards there will always be people trying to push some bullshit that doesn’t deserve anything but a contemptuous down vote. Sometimes you just have to scowl at fuckwits and walk away because you reasonably suspect that: a) the under lying motivation for their reasoning is entirely sectarian; b)they didn’t arrive at their opinion by their own reasoning; c)you can’t easily unpick a lifetime of racist/sexist propaganda in one chat. etc etc.