Cross-posted from “Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension” by @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de in !DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
FYI, Wikipedia sidebar always has the latest URLs.
And half of them are blocked by German ISPs because of a coalition of people that decide what is and isn’t allowed without any government supervision.
💯 and their FAQ also mentions 3 other information channels:
- https://matrix.to/#/#annas:archivecommunication.org (matrix)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive (reddit)
- https://t.me/+D0zemuNzEdgyOGVk (telegram)
Telegram is very diligent with deleting piracy channels, I’d say it’s so unreliable as not to be worth the effort of setting up.
Other people invade other countries and not get punished, but people caring to make knowledge more available (especially to not rich people) get punished.
I know that’s the system working as expected, but ughh
I don’t get why they did the Spotify thing. It was obviously going to put a massive target on their back
It was very much complementary to their already existing archival goals.
I think they felt they had good enough opsec and went for it, which is really based IMO
They already had a big target on their back. Sure, scraping Spotify made that larger, but given that their aims are explicitly political, I think there’s a lot of value in not being overly cautious and using takedowns as a way to bolster the resiliency of your service.
Domain takedowns are inevitable, even if they’d just continued with their existing archival efforts. That’s why, when I found I wasn’t able to access the .org domain over the weekend, I just went to https://annas-archive.se/ instead.
Edit: wrote one of the old domains (.gs) because I just use what’s bookmarked and got mixed up. It was .se that I used
DEFINITELY due to the Spotify breach.
Honestly I’m surprised they kept their org domain this long
