What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

That hackers powerful enough to take the Internet Archive down are just about as stupid as these people:





Seriously, if SN_BLACKMETA's Twitter account is accurate, this is their motive:

The Internet Archive has and is suffering from a devastating attack. They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of 'Israel.'

In the real world, the Internet Archive has zero actual affiliation with the US Government, and, among the 99 Petabytes (equivalent of 99,000 terabytes) of data that they took down most likely included a LOT of information about the Palestinean freedom movement. They have apparently been informed of this, and either cannot comprehend that something like this can be done without the assistance of the state or do not care, saying to a Cybernews reporter:

Everyone calls this organization “non-profit,” but if its roots are truly in the United States, as we believe, then every “free” service they offer bleeds millions of lives. Foreign nations are not carrying their values beyond their borders.