It would appear that it's not just the CIA related article....
This article, from a Feb 24, 2015 snapshot of the Zerohedge front page, 404's as well: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/big-barbie-watching-you-meet-wifi-connected-doll-talks-your-kids-records-them
Archive version if you want to read the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20150225015143/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/big-barbie-watching-you-meet-wifi-connected-doll-talks-your-kids-records-them
Over the years, comments and articles on Zerohedge have been lost, either just due to no longer wanting to host them or general fuck ups from time to time. It's an important reminder to always save backups of things that are interesting, you never know when it will be memory holed.
The thing that pisses me off at Zerohedge at the moment is that comments are effectively shoahed after about 3 days. You can still see the comments you made, but you can't see the conversation or other comments on articles that are more than about 3 days old. I think this is related to the general Google Ad Sense fuckery that has been going on there for some time. You can't even say "fags" in a comment there now, or "cohencidence". Fucking Google cunts.
I wonder why are they deleting old articles. Is it because they lack servers space, or is somebody in charge telling them to get rid of dangerous articles?
Probably just not economical. They are running the site to make money, so if an article is getting less than a certain threshold of hits, it would be costing them more to host it than they would get back in ad revenue. To simplify it, they probably just have a cutoff and stop hosting articles after a set amount of time.
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