If I controlled a paper, I’d force a git control system with publicly viewable edits made after publication.
Imagine the goodwill and trust that would instill in the public toward your paper.
Edit: I’ve thought the same thing about proposed legislation for a long time.
I think many have also been wondering about version control of legislation/law documents for some time as well. But I never understand why it’s not realized yet.
Because the people who would implement that system would be the same people it would hold to account.
I’m genuinely impressed by this being upvoted here. Big tech and powerful corporate/government interests are destroying our societies. This information needs to be checked and tracked.
Piracy is data preservation after all. How many books, series, TV shows, and video games would be inaccessible if not for pirated copies?
Maybe it is out there, but the Internet Archive should be wildly redundant on the internet, it’s just too valuable to lose.
This article sent my down a Brewster Kahle rabbit hole, so…
Who remembers when Alexa was simply a web traffic rating site? I forgot that Amazon named it’s assistant after that property.
This sounds like a great excuse to launch an archive with a bunch of proxies that automatically captures new New York Times articles and tracks changes over an exponential amount of time. Preferably with a built-in algorithm that diffs the articles.
