Mark Graham

We work hard to archive things that people think they want to preserve in some fashion. And so a lot of material on some of these social platforms are archived by patrons who enter URLs into the Wayback Machine.

We work hard to archive things that people think they want to preserve in some fashion. And so a lot of material on some of these social platforms are archived by patrons who enter URLs into the Wayback Machine.

It absolutely is making some of the work that we do more challenging. But I actually think there's larger implications here. It's hurting our democracy. It's hurting our culture. It's hurting our ability to have shared conversations and shared understandings of the world. that we live in. But this isn't necessarily a technical thing too, because we can make choices.

It absolutely is making some of the work that we do more challenging. But I actually think there's larger implications here. It's hurting our democracy. It's hurting our culture. It's hurting our ability to have shared conversations and shared understandings of the world. that we live in. But this isn't necessarily a technical thing too, because we can make choices.

It absolutely is making some of the work that we do more challenging. But I actually think there's larger implications here. It's hurting our democracy. It's hurting our culture. It's hurting our ability to have shared conversations and shared understandings of the world. that we live in. But this isn't necessarily a technical thing too, because we can make choices.

I can watch one TV channel and you can watch another, and we get radically different worldviews. But in those cases, we have choices at least, and we can flip between one and the other. If the switching cost is higher, where it's a paywall, for example, and where the switching cost is an actual dollar sign cost, then

I can watch one TV channel and you can watch another, and we get radically different worldviews. But in those cases, we have choices at least, and we can flip between one and the other. If the switching cost is higher, where it's a paywall, for example, and where the switching cost is an actual dollar sign cost, then

I can watch one TV channel and you can watch another, and we get radically different worldviews. But in those cases, we have choices at least, and we can flip between one and the other. If the switching cost is higher, where it's a paywall, for example, and where the switching cost is an actual dollar sign cost, then

Can I afford to pay for the 30 or 40 different news sources that I would like to have access to as an informed citizen? Is a real cost associated with that or the cost of using this app or that app and not be able to bring this material together and aggregate it? So the issue that you're addressing, I think, is one of the critical issues of our times.

Can I afford to pay for the 30 or 40 different news sources that I would like to have access to as an informed citizen? Is a real cost associated with that or the cost of using this app or that app and not be able to bring this material together and aggregate it? So the issue that you're addressing, I think, is one of the critical issues of our times.

Can I afford to pay for the 30 or 40 different news sources that I would like to have access to as an informed citizen? Is a real cost associated with that or the cost of using this app or that app and not be able to bring this material together and aggregate it? So the issue that you're addressing, I think, is one of the critical issues of our times.

And yes, certainly it affects the work that we do here as archivists, but I think it has much broader and profound social implications. There's a lot of material that's publicly available. I keep using this phrase public web, and I'm making a distinction here. Things you can get to without an ID and a password.

And yes, certainly it affects the work that we do here as archivists, but I think it has much broader and profound social implications. There's a lot of material that's publicly available. I keep using this phrase public web, and I'm making a distinction here. Things you can get to without an ID and a password.

And yes, certainly it affects the work that we do here as archivists, but I think it has much broader and profound social implications. There's a lot of material that's publicly available. I keep using this phrase public web, and I'm making a distinction here. Things you can get to without an ID and a password.

This is an evolving landscape that we live in of people's perceptions and realities. With the advent of the AI companies and large amounts of material that they've gathered from the public web and then used in new and different ways, There has been changes by some of the folks who are making that material available. Many organizations are kind of closing down the hashes.

This is an evolving landscape that we live in of people's perceptions and realities. With the advent of the AI companies and large amounts of material that they've gathered from the public web and then used in new and different ways, There has been changes by some of the folks who are making that material available. Many organizations are kind of closing down the hashes.

This is an evolving landscape that we live in of people's perceptions and realities. With the advent of the AI companies and large amounts of material that they've gathered from the public web and then used in new and different ways, There has been changes by some of the folks who are making that material available. Many organizations are kind of closing down the hashes.

So far, we've been doing okay. We've actually been working cooperatively with many different platforms for a long time. And we also take measures to respect the intellectual property and the rights of content creators. The material from the Wayback Machine is... generally only available as a playback of an individual URL. We don't support the bulk downloading of the material.

So far, we've been doing okay. We've actually been working cooperatively with many different platforms for a long time. And we also take measures to respect the intellectual property and the rights of content creators. The material from the Wayback Machine is... generally only available as a playback of an individual URL. We don't support the bulk downloading of the material.

So far, we've been doing okay. We've actually been working cooperatively with many different platforms for a long time. And we also take measures to respect the intellectual property and the rights of content creators. The material from the Wayback Machine is... generally only available as a playback of an individual URL. We don't support the bulk downloading of the material.