Two wrongs don’t make a right, though. Being targeted by big actors doesn’t mean you should try to DDoS someone else. And the Archive.is maintainer also has a little history with spamming Wikipedia with links to his site, so it’s not as if the decision materialized out of thin air.
Some additional reading from Gyrovague, the victim of the DDoS, and other interesting context.
When asked by a commenter,
do we want archive.today taken down over this? Who would lose and who would benefit the most from this takedown?
Gyrovague responded:
As for outcomes, I’m very much a bit player/spectator in this drama, nobody’s going to be “taking them down” over DDOSing an obscure nerd blog.
If they do go down, it’ll be the FBI or equivalent, and it will be publicly justified as some combination of “protecting the children” (cf. WAAD) and/or copyright violations.
I don’t even see wrongs, just one being childish and the other petty… but hey, if Archive guy decides to burn down his Library of Alexandria I believe we fully deserve losing all that information forever.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, though. Being targeted by big actors doesn’t mean you should try to DDoS someone else. And the Archive.is maintainer also has a little history with spamming Wikipedia with links to his site, so it’s not as if the decision materialized out of thin air.
Some additional reading from Gyrovague, the victim of the DDoS, and other interesting context.
When asked by a commenter,
Gyrovague responded:
I don’t even see wrongs, just one being childish and the other petty… but hey, if Archive guy decides to burn down his Library of Alexandria I believe we fully deserve losing all that information forever.