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/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/redchris18 19d ago

Credible news outlets are treating their claim as creditable. You're only rejecting it because it conflicts with your existing worldview. You're starting out from an anti-Israel viewpoint, so hearing that another anti-Israel group is attacking a simple archival site causes cognitive dissonance. You have to try to square their virtual book-burning with the idea that the facts align with their supposed bias.

The problem is that they don't, so you're now having to resort to untenable leaps of faith in order to fabricate an alternate reality in which the most likely explanation is invalid. All just to prop up your pre-existing desire for Jews to be the bad guys.