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by icebraining 2387 days ago
The archives are not easily indexable by search engines, they're posted as multi-GB gzip-compressed WARC files.
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But someone could hypothetically convert the WARC files back to static HTML and host them on the clear web.
Hypothetically, yes; but right now all this stuff is available on the clearnet and searchable. So obviously any potential harm of the present situation, is decreased. And, unless your argument is that we should delete all fora on the web because someone may have said something embarrassing on them, then I think you'd probably want to come down on the side of preservation.