Andrew Deck

Andrew Deck is the Nieman Lab journalist interviewed in News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine about news publishers blocking the [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]]. His reporting supplies the episode’s key caveat: publishers are worried about AI companies using the archive as a proxy route, but the source says they did not identify direct evidence that this had already happened through the Wayback Machine.

Deck frames the issue as an AI-era revision of an older publishing tradeoff. Publishers had long tolerated some [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]] access despite paywall-bypass concerns because Public Web Archiving served a public good. AI Proxy Scraping Risk changes that balance by making an archive copy look like a possible input into commercial model training.

Connections

• Nieman Lab - Deck’s publication context in the source.
• Internet Archive and [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]] - institution and project he discusses.
• Archive Access Tradeoff, Open Web Social Contract Erosion, and Internet History Fragility - concepts his analysis grounds.