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Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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To be clear, other archive sites that take snapshots of web pages are not really alternatives to the Internet Archive, which (importantly) allows uploading of arbitrary data for preservation. One example of this is mentioned in the article:
https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets
Fair, but that just makes it worse. Means we really do have a single point of failure. Alexandria anyone?