The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days

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The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days
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Whoever does that is a mental retard. Web archive has been doing good for us, citizens of the internet.

Or, it's because whoever is doing this hates freedom of information and historical evidence. There's a long list of powerful people and governments who have the resources and will to carry out these attacks.

Cyber warfare is real, and the Internet archive is a museum and library of culture and truth. It provides evidence and context to our past.

As in conventional war, it is valuable to the amoral to destroy culture and truth in order to control it. Many would like to kill that to supplant it with their version of events that can't be refuted with evidence.

Betting this is someone desiring to monetize some or all of what they are offering. Could be any malicious government too

There's an entire industry that harvests content from archive.org for modern ad spam

Can you not make that point without the ableism?

Retard is as ableist as idiot, moron or stupid. So you either need that energy for all of them or to leave it alone.