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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the learn-from-history-or-be-doomed-to-repeat-it dept.

For two years, academics worked to digitize and translate a collection of Taliban documents as part of the Taliban Sources Project (page currently appears to be down, but exists in Google's cache). As the project comes to a close, they've sought an institution to make the digital archive available to researchers around the world. However, the British Library, after reviewing a catalogue of titles, declined to host the documents. Their statement noted that“The Terrorism Act places specific responsibilities on anyone in the UK who might provide access to terrorist publications, and the legal advice received jointly by the British Library and other similar institutions advises against making this type of material accessible.”


[Ed. note] I've had a report that it is available on Bing's cache.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:16PM (#231355)

    Am I on a watchlist for clicking that Bing link now?

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