Erasable History: The Wayback Machine is becoming vulnerable to censorship.

The Wayback Machine is the near ultimate digital record of our past.  A new feature allows judgements to be attached to records, labelled "potential disinformation"..   This distortion is where the camel gets its nose under the tent to disrupt a faithful record.   As Faulkner wrote, "The Past isn't dead.  It isn't even past".

"More and more of humanity’s knowledge is accumulated in massive digital repositories. The danger is not only in the outright loss of stored data as a result of technical malfunctions but also in the greater ability to execute historical revisionism and misrepresenting facts to future generations. Wikipedia – a widely consulted online encyclopedia – is already guilty of this. But, now the Wayback Internet archive is trending down this slippery slope with its recently implemented labeling of snapshot results as potential disinformation."

"Elliot Leavy, warns in an article addressing the changes at the Wayback Machine site, “if we continue to censor the past, attaching intent to some but not to others, we will be unable to evaluate anything at all.”