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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter (walledculture.org)

submitted 11 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 26 points 11 months ago

But how do you determine what's just 'fixing poor wording' and what's actively hiding major bias or retcons of history?

Radio NZ got caught a year or so ago with a staffer who was editing articles syndicated from Reuters to be more pro-Russian. Should they be able to sweep that under the rug and claim it was only ever the one article they got caught on?

Likewise, bin Laden was originally hailed as an anti-Soviet freedom fighter. The articles relating to that are part of the historical record and kinda important.

Allowing the historical record to be retconned with impunity was probably the defining trait of 1984. It's really not a path you want to go down.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

You don't and there's no good way to reconcile my two opinions. I don't disagree the archive should exist, I'm just saying, manipulating information is a valid reason, but the author's bullying publishers for mistakes isn't.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Acknowledging literally every change after any news content is published in any context isn't bullying anyone.

It's the absolute bare minimum to not be a piece of shit.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 11 months ago

There's an easy way to reconcile them... The opinions are "articles should be backed up to prevent information manipulation, a threat to democracy" and "they should be able to hide their mistakes so they don't get made fun of"

You reconcile them by not letting them stealth edit, and you stand up for them when they made an honest mistake and are being blasted for it