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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (17 children)

Lots of grand conspiracy theories in this thread when, in the end, it's probably some bored script kiddy

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (14 children)

I doubt it. I'd sooner think it's a corporation or state actor.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (12 children)

How does taking the website down for a few hours help those people? Especially a state actor? If it was the US government or someone like them wouldn't they do something more permanent? Actually wipe the website?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some news source released something that got redacted based on government pressure. Archive made a snapshot of the news source. Now the state actor goes after the Archive to prevent time sensitive information from spreading. They benefit from the information not being widely available immediately.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh....so what got released today?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How would I know? The news source retracted their statement and archive.org is down...

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Up for me. It was down a few hours tops. And I remember checking it around the time you made that post as well?

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