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Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There are alternative archival sites,

To be clear, other archive sites that take snapshots of web pages are not really alternatives to the Internet Archive, which (importantly) allows uploading of arbitrary data for preservation. One example of this is mentioned in the article:

https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets

[โ€“] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Fair, but that just makes it worse. Means we really do have a single point of failure. Alexandria anyone?