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  • HessiaNerd@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Can’t help but wonder what was the point? My paranoia can’t help but cook up someone wanting to scrub something that hadn’t seen wide distribution yet, so pay a small group to slam the internet archive and wipe all traces away before anyone else gets a chance to back it up…

    Far fetched, yeah, kinda. But it avoids the usual Streisand trap from more conventional approaches.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Balance of probabilities says someone did it because they could. That’s the most likely situation.

      However, I see where you’re coming from and could definitely see that happening.