GravelTeeth
Jr. Member
True, you can't edit the IA snapshots. But you can request that IA remove your web site history.
Editing by deletion. It could happen, leaving gaps in the directory structure of any remaining snapshots. Further down in the old thread, though, it was alleged that this had been an editing by addition as well: https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/death-of-research-and-truth.648349/post-6675571 .
I think it is incumbent upon the claimer to show which articles from the glorious past are actually missing from the Archive's version, so that the rest of us can appreciate what was silenced, and also cross-check against the RSS cache I linked to earlier and see if perhaps some people (ahem) are just bad at finding things using the Archive. Of course the Archive is not perfect, and it's completeness, especially for a blog, will depend upon whether or not they crawled the piece in question. For example if there had been blog entries made between last crawl and the site's demise/deprecation, those may not be reflected. That would be an organic result and not the product of manipulation.
From the thread linked in post #149, it sounds like the guys who ran the blog were hired by the COI TV show. Their NDA probably includes a non-disparagement clause (they often do) so as part of being hired they likely agreed to take down the web site contents. Normal stuff.
This begins to enter the realm of the reasonable. It wouldn't even have to be disparagement, but simply a non-compete clause, or, as my job requires, a periodic declaration that we have no secondary income that would represent a conflict of interest to the primary employer. In that scenario we would expect the Archive to be an accurate reflection of what had been there prior to letting the domain expire.
It seems increasingly likely that via the old thread and others, TBT just took the idle (but wrong) speculations of other users as gospel without proper vetting and is now too far invested to stop proclaiming it from the pulpit.
--GT