[mgdlbp]

I read on HN an insightful rationalization of IA's heeding of requests to hide content: Making data unavailable without protest - while continuing to silently collect it - minimizes controversy and potential blocking or censorship, a short-term sacrifice for its mission of giving longevity to internet content.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21012643

In that context, NEL was quite a foolish thing to do.

But wait, that's not its mission - https://archive.org/about explains how IA's mission of 'Universal Access to All Knowledge' and status as a library entail 'paying special attention to books'. That'd be the rationale for NEL, then?