Re: <nettime> Guardian Live on Assange's arrest/Internet archives

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

On 2019-04-11 19:01, newmedia@aol.com wrote:

> It is "Five Eyes" who are now trying to crack down on the Internet --
> as reflected in the communiques coming from their last meeting in
> Australia.  "Regulation" of Facebook &al is also likely to be based on
> their plans -- as reflected in recent sweeping "take-down" notices to
> the Internet Archive and others for hosting "terrorist" materials.

This, to me,  is the most frightening part of newmedia's posting: now 
for erasing history - this would be pure 1984, and indeed one of the 
many, painful 'ends of the Internet' ...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/11/18305968/eu-internet-terrorist-content-takedown-mistakes-internet-archive-org

https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/

We all can go to sleep now ...
p=2D!


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