249,000 Stand News website pages backed up by Internet Archive, now searchable; “Ku Wen” brings together more than 2.3 million Apple Daily and Stand News articles
24.9 萬《立場》網站頁面獲互聯網檔案館備份 現開放搜尋 「聞庫」集結逾 230 萬篇蘋果、立場文章
On 29 December last year, the National Security Department raided the office of Stand News and arrested several directors and senior executives. Stand News announced its closure on the same day and removed all content from its website, abruptly erasing seven years of Hong Kong history it had documented, along with every word written by its journalists. However, many people worked to back up the material before the memories were erased. Earlier, a group of LIHKG users set up the website “Ku Wen”, re-uploading tens of thousands of Apple Daily and Stand News articles for public browsing. The Internet Archive, headquartered in the United States and dedicated to backing up different websites, has also recently launched a new function allowing users to search archived pages from the Stand News website by keyword.
去年 12 月 29 日，國安處突擊搜查《立場新聞》的辦公室，並拘捕多名董事和高層。《立場》同日宣布停運，並移除網站上所有內容，七年來所記錄的香港歷史、記者的一字一句一下子被清零。不過，亦有不少人趁記憶被抹走之前，盡力備份。早前就有一班連登用戶建立了網站「聞庫」，將數以萬計的《蘋果日報》和《立場》文章重新放上網供大家瀏覽。而總部設於美國，專責為不同網頁進行備份的「互聯網檔案館（Internet Archive）」，近日亦開放了新功能，讓網民可以用關鍵字搜尋已備份的《立場新聞》網站版面。