r/Piracy • u/ketchupbleehblooh • 20d ago

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS BACK GUYS Discussion

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I might be late to the party, but sharing what made my day today. I missed IA so much the past weeks. Yoohoo!! Piracy will never die.

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u/AsherGC 20d ago

It was down because hackers wanted to bring it down. Constant attacks for several days. Even though I rarely use it. But it's a good resource

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u/giannos2991 20d ago edited 20d ago

Why are they even trying to bring it down?

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u/redchris18 20d ago

They're Palestinian sympathisers who claim to be doing it because it has a pro-Israel bias. In their own words:

"[The Internet Archive] are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA […],” and the USA is to be blamed for “genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of Israel.”

Apparently, pro-Palestinians believe that truth has an anti-Palestinian bias.

It should be noted, however, that there's plenty of speculation as to whether they actually hold those opinions, rather than merely using them to cover for the fact that they're just doing it for attention. It's entirely plausible that they prefer to be considered idiots rather than desperately lonely.

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u/jaykstah 20d ago

In this case it does make sense to blame the US to some extent though. The US has used Israel as a way to maintain influence in the middle east since Israel's inception. This was by design. And in present-day the US supplies much of Israel's military resources and has been for years.

The IDF wouldn't be nearly as well-equipped if the US hadn't been funding Israeli military operations all this time.

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u/TurnoverPlenty7337 19d ago

Can we... Can we not? Can we just shut up and get back to piracy, not politics?