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In reply to the discussion: You know, I've been on DU for sixteen years... [View all]TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)When "Jamie Maz" claimed to "discover" them. The only assurance we have that they were in in Internet Archive is from the Internet Archive themselves - with the claim that their systems are unhackable. A claim which is laughably untrue, since everything connected to the Internet is hackable . Plus the fact that they cannot guarantee authenticity of the data they provide.
Of course, the Internet Archive could clear this whole thing up if they just provided access to the secure archive backup of the data stream they had received at the time the posts were allegedly made.
Unfortunately, given their description of their method of gathering data - recording the live or nearly-live stream as it happens, then making it available to their users - this is not something they actually have. IOW The Archive doesn't actually archive their data. IF THEY DID THEY WOULD HAVE SAID SO. They didn't. So given no other info, we can assume they use a standard 3-2-1 backup regime. Robust & reliable, but totally useless for recovering data previous to the current backup cycle.
So, here's the scenario:
2006-2010 Joy happily does her blog. Her posts regularly receive several replies, and are also regularly remembered by both her many fans and her many detractors. The Internet Archive dutifully records and verifies the data stream & saves it. The offending posts are nowhere to be found. Nobody saw them, her editors didn't read them, there were no replies to them.
2014 Joy is hired by MSNBC (including an extensive vetting process, I'm sure, where the offending posts were not found a second time. At least).
2016 Joy offends the worshipers of a certain non-Democratic politician, the politician's spouse insists Reid is unfair & biased. The worshipers vow to "get back" at Reid.
2017 "Jamie Maz" "discovers" one true blog post from 2007 which some correctly find offensive. Joy correctly apologizes.
~late 2017-Apr 2018 persons unknown insert the posts in question into the already-verified data saved from Reid's blog.
Apr 2018 The posts in question are subsequently "discovered" by "Jamie Maz". ""Maz" provides no information about themselves, their methods or procedures, or their goals or objectives. They are totally anonymous. And of course the Internet Archive cannot detect the tampering, because as far as they can determine the data was verified by their own systems.
And that's just the way the nefarious people ratfucking us like it.
In response, the people who are not & have never been friends of Democrats, liberals & progressives, go batshit crazy attacking Joy Reid.
How's that?