Leave the Internet Archive alone!
Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn't stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html
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@gutenberg_org The only ones that would be hurt by remembering the past is Nazi's that hate the true history.
@gutenberg_org In a world where knowledge is power, libraries represent a threat to authority.
@gutenberg_org I agree, I think that anyone who destroys such troves of knowledge should have their gonads removed with a pair of rusty pliers.
I don't care about what ideology or group does it - if you dare put barriers between knowledge and the gents who would observe it. There is no calling greater than to obtain knowledge for knowledge's sake.
A plague upon these hackcel's houses!
Malign influence campaigns are automated via AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/11/1014081/ai-machine-learning-crowd-gig-worker-problem-amazon-mechanical-turk/
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/ai-workers-mechanical-turk
Corporations adopted Amazon's Mechanical Turk business model whole-heartedly.
https://qz.com/mechanical-turks-automation-humans-1851396978
https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-turker-crowd-has-had-enough/
The people paying for these automated disinformation campaigns don't want to pay the people doing it.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/15/nyregion/amazon-mechanical-turk.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192/
https://www.404media.co/amazon-turkers-who-train-ai-say-theyre-locked-out-of-their-work-and-money/
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-mechanical-turk-bot-panic/