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- Jul 19, 2019
While Lou is being boring, I thought I'd point out that the Internet Archive has been capturing most of Lou's tweets without even being asked. For example, here's the Wetback Tweet:
web.archive.org
This has two main benefits. First, archive.li was shitting itself during Lou's late January meltdown, and although we attempted to process almost all of his tweets during that period, he'd already deleted most of them by the time they came up in the queue several days later. By contrast, the Wayback Machine seems to have caught most of them the same day he wrote them, before he DFEd. Second, the Wayback Machine is much better known than archive.li, and everyone knows how it works. So even people who believe Lou when he says that we hateful transphobes somehow altered the archive.li records won't believe we have the capability to alter Wayback Machine archives. The upshot is greater accountability and reduced deniability for Lou, and we don't even have to do anything.
If I have time, I'm going to check the archive links from the posts I made during the meltdown, and replace any nonfunctional ones with Internet Archive links. You should do the same.
Also, the "Folgen" ("Follow") button in the screenshot gets translated by Google Translate as "consequences," which is delightful.

Artemis Maddox on Twitter
“@JengBusWo @MKatorin yes, you did. you didn't say to what, pedophile wetback”
This has two main benefits. First, archive.li was shitting itself during Lou's late January meltdown, and although we attempted to process almost all of his tweets during that period, he'd already deleted most of them by the time they came up in the queue several days later. By contrast, the Wayback Machine seems to have caught most of them the same day he wrote them, before he DFEd. Second, the Wayback Machine is much better known than archive.li, and everyone knows how it works. So even people who believe Lou when he says that we hateful transphobes somehow altered the archive.li records won't believe we have the capability to alter Wayback Machine archives. The upshot is greater accountability and reduced deniability for Lou, and we don't even have to do anything.
If I have time, I'm going to check the archive links from the posts I made during the meltdown, and replace any nonfunctional ones with Internet Archive links. You should do the same.
Also, the "Folgen" ("Follow") button in the screenshot gets translated by Google Translate as "consequences," which is delightful.