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Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

I am annoyed that it keeps getting brought up as an “AI scraping” issue when it’s clearly a greedy paywall thing

It’s really not. It’s motivated by AI scraping from the folks I’ve spoken with

Could news sites use a “sign up/sign in to read” to block AI scrapers (as I’ve seen some have) instead of taking stuff off of internet archive? I’m just curious, I’m not a tech person rlly