News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It

Techdirt. 2026-02-13

Summary:

Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate concerns about bulk AI training with basic web accessibility. Not surprisingly, the situation has gotten worse. Now major […]

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https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/

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Tags:

ai

Authors:

Mike Masnick

Date tagged:

02/13/2026, 15:34

Date published:

02/13/2026, 14:57