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October 7

What's this site's agenda?

I was doing some research about the concentration camp that was built in Terezin during WWII. The Germans called it Theresienstadt. And I found a link (at the bottom of our page) to see the video of the film that was made there. There is a caution next to the link, letting me know that the page has pro-Nazi/anti-Semite text on it. And that's true, it's all about how the Holocaust wasn't real. But the website seems legit. It's called the Internet Archive and it claims to be "building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form". So why does it have all this Nazi bullshit on it?46.208.148.199 (talk) 22:07, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gross lies (suitably marked as such) are as much part of our cultural deposit as incontrovertible truths are. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:22, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) The Internet Archive tries to archive all of the internet - including the good and the bad. It's often used to link to defined states of a given website. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 22:24, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) — :Internet Archive is a legit site. Their "agenda" can be found on their 'about' page here:[1]. Like any library, it is a collection, not an editorial service. And like Wikipedia, it is not censored. Their slogan is "Universal access to all knowledge", and not "Universal access to non-controversial knowledge". —71.20.250.51 (talk) 22:29, 7 October 2014 (UTC))[reply]

A similar questions comes up with Nazi or KKK uniforms, etc. Some argue that they should be destroyed, while others argue that they should be put in a museum, lest we forget. StuRat (talk) 17:49, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]