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 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 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 Wayback Machine - institution and project he discusses.
• Archive Access Tradeoff, Open Web Social Contract Erosion, and Internet History Fragility - concepts his analysis grounds.