Worth noting … the feds are coming for archival sites.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to unmask the operator of Archive.is, also known as Archive.today, a website that saves snapshots of webpages and is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.
The FBI sent a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows, seeking “subscriber information on [the] customer behind archive.today” in connection with “a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.” The subpoena tells Tucows that “your company is required to furnish this information.”
The subpoena is supposed to be secret, but the Archive.today X account posted the document on October 30, the same day the subpoena was issued. The X post contained a link to the PDF and the word “canary.”
“If you refuse to obey this subpoena, the United States Attorney General may invoke the aid of a United States District Court to compel compliance. Your failure to obey the resulting court order may be punished as contempt,” the document said. It gave a deadline of November 29.
They should just say they’re training up an AI. The feds will back off in a hot second.
So I guess the right move here is close down their footprint in the US (if they have one) and then sit back in Canada and tell the FBI to bury their subpoena firmly up their ass?
I’d like to add that if I can’t copy NYT articles into archive anymore, then I’ll just stop reading their bullshit. Because truly, all they publish is bullshit anymore.
The FBI really wants people having discussions that are limited to just the headline I guess…
Even if legal attacks don’t work, I’ve noticed a few sites I read articles from have paywalls that are no longer bypassable by archive.is, and so I’m kind of at a loss as to how to link them, except maybe by copying the text myself. But that has a number of disadvantages, such as, copied text is not an authoritative source because most people can’t verify it wasn’t altered. It’s usually not a problem reading it myself because all the text shows up in the rss feed, but what’s lacking is a way to share it.
This sounds like an opportunity to follow 4chan (of all things) and politely tell them to fuck off.
I wonder why the FBI might be more interested in shutting down records of what the media is saying rather than hunting pedophiles.
They work for the pedophiles
The call is coming from inside the house!
Looks like it’s register in Prague. Not an expert here, but I’m pretty sure the USA agency doesn’t have any jurisdiction in Prague.
Ah, but if you want a proper defenestration, Prague’s the go-to.
So, what you’re saying, is that the fbi should flaunt about their perceived world power to the Prague government?
Why should Putin have all the fun when there are upper-floor windows all over the world?
And for years people have insisted to me that there’s no use to be had from fully decentralized DNS alternatives like ENS.
These things are like backups. You need to start using them before you discover that you need them.
.onions too
Shit. Is that how I lost my porn collection?
Archive.is too good for this world
The fbi is the problem here and governments. The website don’t do anything wrong.
What do you expect? they haven’t done their million dollar dinner in florida yet.
I don’t really care for a $999,990 plate with $10 of shitty food.
No sir, you misunderstand.
This is the 21st century american version of paying for indulgences. However, we’re not talking about holy sins, we’re talking about a total pardon for all known and unknown crimes, immunity from prosecution by the government and perhaps even prosecution against any enemies you may have whom have not also paid for their million dollar dinner.
You’re not just paying for the best plate of food available at the million dollar dinner for those paying the price, they’re offering true honest to god fixing of whatever regulatory and legal hurdles you might have… and for a special price they can upgrade you to the gold tier which includes fixing supreme court judgements in nearly any case.
Act now! Dinner times and their benefits are limited for three years, death by natural causes or if impeached or otherwise removed from office. The sooner you buy, the sooner you win!
This. This. This.
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Do you want a pardon?
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Are they that cheap?
Honestly, I don’t know if we’ll find out what the real bribe amounts are until some people’s memoirs are published after they die or are out of the rat race in the US. It’s too soon.
Million dollar dinners are a thing though that have hit the news multiple times this year. Who knows how much it costs to kiss the ring in reality, but you can bet your ass all these rich crooks getting pardons in the news right now have paid up… and the ones who have paid for those dinners seem to have the government on their side, so long as they do not say anything negative about the administration.
Comply or things may happen!
Ok.
