shame info wars clips from that time are hard to find now
Internet censorship is absolutely bonkers.
I'm sometimes looking for certain vids I know existed that simply can't be found anymore.
I've always enjoyed how the internet was sort of this time machine that allowed you to find stuff from years back but recently I've noticed much has vanished.
Not just infowars but also stuff like old Daily Show, Colbert, etc. clips. YouTube search has also become useless, pushing basically the same type of stuff to the top that has little to do with what you're looking for.
Sounds more like the natural entropy of all archives or commercial & legal reasons to take stuff off the shelf than censorship. "The Internet" has the same sort of limitations as any repository.
The Jon Stewart's Daily Show clips (because yeah, most of it is off YouTube... I would imagine off Comedy Central own platform too) could have been taken down because :
- Of some licencing issue (Jon Stewart's image, some music or voice over, etc...).
- Because they were incredibly dated and clogging the channel for marginal returns.
- Not to burden Trevor Noah version of the show with a constant point of comparison.
- To sell them in a different medium / platform.
- Or a variety of other things...
I don't have a source but as far as I heard the common wisdom now after some years of actual experiences is that digital is often less reliable an archiving solution than physical counterparts. At the very least, we're past the illusion that the Internet is an infinite, pristine time machine.