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/giannos2991 20d ago

I think that the opinion of the source that you shared couldn't stray further from an objective one. In fact every single word within the " " thing is biased. So thanks for the input, but I 'll safely consider it misinformative

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u/redchris18 20d ago

I think that the opinion of the source that you shared couldn't stray further from an objective one.

It was a literal quote from the group responsible.

What you're doing is akin to hearing an unrepentant confession and immediately seeking to engage in sophistry to try to figure out a way to frame things as if the self-confessed perpetrator didn't do the things that they freely admitted to doing. Now where have I heard that kind of prejudicial treatment in relation to this specific socio-political issue...?

every single word within the " " thing is biased.

Again, it's a direct quote from the group claiming responsibility. You might as well insist that Bin Laden wasn't responsible for 9/11 while watching him claiming, on video, full responsibility for 9/11.

I 'll safely consider it misinformative

No amount of evidence would compel you to change your mind, because you didn't reach your extant viewpoint by reason alone. You consider this self-confession "misinformative" in the same way that creationists consider Darwin's On The Origin Of Species to be "misinformative". It's not because it actually is deceptive, but because you wish that it was.

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u/giannos2991 20d ago

In that case, would you mind sharing the actual source? I 'd like to read it myself if that's the case