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| Name = Netflix, Inc.
| Type = Private
| Founded = 1996
| Industry = Digital Library
| Official Website = https://archive.org/
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The '''{{Wplink|Internet Archive}}''' is an American non-profit digital library founded in 1996 to provide free "universal access to all knowledge" and preserve digital history.




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== Censorship ==
==Censorship==
Topics:
Topics:


KiwiFarms URL delisting,
Login-only items for legally dubious content,
 
Login-only "items" for controversial content,


Obeys removal requests by site owners sometimes of entire domains,
Obeys removal requests by site owners sometimes of entire domains,


Retroactively removes (hides) material covered by robots.txt restrictions (They may have stopped doing this - also don't confuse this for the [https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ criteria for actually saving/archiving a page], I am talking about end user access to saved/archived content)
Retroactively removes (hides) material covered by robots.txt restrictions (They may have stopped doing this - also don't confuse this for the [https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ criteria for actually saving/archiving a page], I am talking about end user access to saved/archived content)