Walled Culture has already written about the two–pronged attack by the copyright industry against the Internet Archive, which was founded by Brewster Kahle, whose Kahle/Austin Foundation supports this blog. The Intercept has an interesting article that reveals another reason why some newspaper publishers are not great fans of the site: The New York Times tried …
They want to hide shadow edits, something that brings up questions of journalistic integrity
If you can be trusted to be honest as a news source, you shouldn’t be a news source. IA helps keep them honest on this front
That reason is moot though, when it’s in thier purview.
I would encourage you to just never click on a New York Times link ever again like the rest of us probably plan on doing. That will speak lpuder than complaints that you can’t access the pay walled content for free anymore (we all know this is the actual reason people here are upset about this notion, let’s just be honest about that).
Nobody is going to be honest about this. They’ll claim altruism, and shout until you give up.
I’m still calling them out, and they still know it. So that’s ok
Why ask the question if you’re gonna say “your reason is moot”?