Journalism is already dead if journalists cannot defend the archive service for their journalism from the pointless wrath of their own employers.

shrugs I mean I look forward to one day rebuilding these things when we finally have a chance but this is the end of the road for traditional news organizations on the internet.

I couldn't even read this all because "I have already read my last free article...

truth will die if there is no independent archive.

It's all about the benjamins:

A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.

I certainly hope that the Wayback machine is setting up a number of independent proxies.

These “independent journalist agencies” or whatever forget that once you put something on the Internet, it’s there forever. Getting something off of the Internet is like trying to get pee out of a pool. Or, more like trying to get pee out of the ocean.

They have had, literally, decades to whine and cry about whatever copyright bullshit claims they have. And they have. They have been repeatedly adjudicated in national and international courts all over the globe, and they have repeatedly been repudiated. Now, they simply don’t want to be held accountable for the horrible things they publish, because they want to be able to take down and edit articles they publish which are no longer truthful. Far beyond their claims of copyright infringement.

And there are no legalistic frameworks to sue against archiving those sorts of publishing malfeasance.

Sadly, for them, once you put it online, it can be archived by anyone, and the Internet archive and the way back machine simply need to make very simple adjustments to their archival methods to continue what they do.

IMO all things on the clearnet will eventually succumb to near constant corporate influence. I2P will be the main way people actually use the internet in the future I think, though ofc I only have a surface level knowledge of what it is.