From the article:
'Stories slated to be “deprecated” are archived using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and authors are alerted at least 10 days in advance, according to the memo.'
'Stories slated to be “deprecated” are archived using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and authors are alerted at least 10 days in advance, according to the memo.'
Don't worry, Wayback is capable of telling CNET where to go if they were really concerned. If anything they should be thankful for the newly-generated interest that a major company would use them instead of some randoms cherry-picking sites for arguments.
You can also save them some space, it appears, by uploading a file on your website asking them not to retain it and then sending an email to them. See https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352
For now, I just blocked the bot, but when I have some time maybe I'll ask them to delete the data.
Hopefully, with a little community effort we can reduce the strain on them so they can spend their limited resources reasonably.