News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...
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Reddit blocks the Internet Archive from crawling its data - here's why

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.