Russia Bans Internet Database Archive

Internet users in Russia will no longer be able to access a massive database of cached webpages, apparently due to one single website authorities in Moscow don’t like. Russia’s attorney general has ordered blockage of the site, known as “The Wayback Machine,” citing legislation that bans minors from accessing sites that contain pornography, sexual abuse, or extremist activities. The Wayback Machine stores cached images of webpages around the world going back as far as 1996 and contains...

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