Well, this pissed me off. Long-time readers of this site may recall my interest in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which aims to preserve the historical web. I’ve previously written to criticize the Bush administration for its lengthy robots.txt exclusion file (thousands of lines long), which could be viewed as an attempt to prevent the […]
As I sit here working on a forthcoming article—Super-Intermediaries, Code, Human Rights—about powerful internet intermediaries and human rights, I was intrigued to come across Julian Assange’s op-ed in Saturday’s New York Times entitled The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’. Assange, the reclusive founder of WikiLeaks, has harsh words for Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of the […]
A very busy week and not much time to post. But I must share some bits from this excellent editorial by Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian on the Aaron Swartz suicide and prosecutorial overreach. Like Greenwald, I am deeply concerned over increasing federal prosecutorial abuse. A few additional and appalling examples, in my opinion, include the […]
The Next Web reports that the Internet Archive has vastly increased its historical database of the web: The Internet Archive has updated its Wayback Machine with a significant bump in coverage: the service has gone from 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total of about 5 petabytes of data. More specifically, the Wayback Machine […]
