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I'm guessing whoever is sending those letters snapshotted the CSAM on archive.today themselves to have leverage to take them down.
It's the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations... I guarantee it. This is analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN's, DNS, encryption, our private communication systems, and our education, legal, political, and judicial systems.
Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet, especially tools that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal.
Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.
There's a part of me that wants to cringe from the conspiracy thinking clear in this response. Unfortunately, the logical, observational part of me is much bigger. I see the patterns on this one.
I just this morning got a privacy update from my Asus router. They're going to start collecting my usage. I clicked disagree, and it went to another popup warning that I will lose most of the features I rely upon, with a button "re-read". How is this not extortion?
Now I have to go through the traumatic process of installing wwdrt and hope I don't brick my internet access entirely.
Several months ago, my brother scanner software would not work until I gave it permission to send my scans to their server. I no longer use that software.
The surveillance state is expanding at an exponential rate. We are amidst the " great reset" the right wingers warned of, but it is driven by their "great" leaders.
it all ties back to peter theil and murdoch, the world over.
maybe there are some big "silent partner" types i'v missed but every dirty little fascist rabbithole like this i'v dug through eventually ended at the doorstep to theil or murdoch
Most would know them through the infamous name "palantier".
It's not even a conspiracy.
Authoritarianism is inherently anti-intellectualism.
What was the ASUS privacy update? In the router settings page? I haven't seen it yet but I don't use any of their extra services
I got a notification on my phone, opened it, and was hit with the privacy practice update. Clicked deny, was hit with a warning my device would be crippled. Port forwarding and other features would no longer work and I would not get feature updates.
I'm getting ready to install the Merlin asuswrt ROM to give them a huge "fuck you" and possibly get access to features I chose not to use due to the data collection they have. Basically, they probably noticed that few activated the honey pot features and chose to just force the surveilance on us all.
Web archives preserve information the US Government has deleted, like reports on the economy, climate change, and Black history. In general they work against censorship of the internet. This is just another case of using "protecting the children" as a cudgel to kill politically inconvenient sources of information.
It certainly sounds that way