We sent an email to Archive.today’s contact address and asked two simple questions:

• Can they remove the illegal content from the URLs we were informed about?
• Is it true that they refused to remove such content in the past, and had they been notified about it before?

They replied within a few hours. The response was straightforward: the illegal content would be removed (and we verified that it was), and they had never received any previous notifications about those URLs.

Moreover, they hinted that Archive.today had been targeted by a campaign of “serial” complaints, supposedly from French organizations, sent to various companies and institutions that could potentially harm the site. They even shared a link demonstrating a complaint similar to the one we had received.

Seems like a concentrated effort to whitewash the internet by getting rid of the archives. Wasn’t Archive.org target to similar takedown notices recently?