Tuesday, March 28, 2023

From the Guardian of Intellectual Freedom to One of Its Jailers: More Disturbing News about Archive.org, aka The Wayback Machine

By N.S.

My longtime VDARE editor, James Fulford, discussed black supremacists and their White “allies’” demand for racial reparations yesterday. (I recently devoted a giant, unabridged work to the subject.)

James specifically discussed the ad David Horowitz placed in many college newspapers in 2001, opposing reparations, and Sam Francis’ discussion thereof.

Here’s the problem: Horowitz himself removed his column. (Correction: I see that Horowitz reprinted his column on March 24th.)

(Several years ago, Horowitz did the same thing to yours truly. His staffers had re-posted many of my articles, and Horowitz had re-printed several of them, as front-pagers, but he periodically suffers attacks of spinelessness, as he did when an affirmative action, racist mulatto named David Mills (aka “undercover blackman”) sent him a poison pen letter attacking Lawrence Auster, out of revenge for Larry’s having exposed black-male-on-White-female rape, and Horowitz memory holed Larry’s work for him. And so, it’s almost impossible to find my work at front page mag anymore.)

I tried to find Horowitz’ original anti-reparations column, but got the following message from archive.org, aka the wayback machine:

Sorry.

“This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.”

“Excluded.”

A few years ago, when Jared Taylor published his work, White Identity (see my review here), and amazon refused to sell it, Jared sought to download it for free at archive/wayback, but it refused.

“Item not available

“The item is not available due to issues with the item's content.”


Thus, has Archive/Wayback gone, in a few short years, from being one of the guardians of intellectual freedom to one of its jailers.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

More than anything else reparations is a very bad idea it’s just strictly from the standpoint that the money will be wasted on frivolity, smokes, drink, drugs, gambling, etc.

Wasted away without any thoughts for tomorrow, but that is the basic mindset anyhow isn’t it?

Anonymous said...

Remember this behavior the next time archive.org asks for donations.

The same goes for Wikipedia.