Submitted by hammyhammad t3_10kaimd in worldnews
ttkciar t1_j5pibl4 wrote
Reply to comment by jphamlore in Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC documentary critical of PM Modi by hammyhammad
Yes and no.
The Archive is very responsive to content owners requesting that their property is removed from the site (either by sending a request to The Archive or by modifying their own robots.txt; the Wayback Machine checks the live robots.txt before serving up old content and uses it as a filter).
On the other hand, there's no law forbidding companies or individuals from keeping a local-only copy of others' IP for non-public use, so IA doesn't actually delete content. They "darken" it instead, which means it's still in the data cluster back-end but inaccessible from the outside.
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