#digitalimpermanence — Public Fediverse posts

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Heise Online: The German Bundestag has copyright problems. “Suddenly, a part of the Bundestag’s history is missing: Since April, the online archive for the years 2005 to 2016 is no longer available on the Bundestag website. Content ranging from consultation processes to parliamentary biographies has disappeared: the so-called web archive, with which the content of the respective legislative […]

Scientific American: History depends on records that weren’t built to last. “Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace.”

Daily Nous: Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. “What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal […]

NBC News: Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters. “The Justice Department has removed press releases detailing the charges against hundreds of individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from its website, the department confirmed Friday.”

Techdirt: Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.. “These concerns are understandable, but unfounded. The Wayback Machine is not intended to be a backdoor for large-scale commercial scraping and, like others on the web today, we expend significant time and effort working to prevent such abuse. Whatever legitimate concerns people may have about generative AI, libraries are not the […]