The Internet Archive is a great way to unearth scams and lies (“oh, that website that looks like it’s been around a while didn’t exist before last week?” “That politician had what as a policy statement four years ago, before deleting it all off their website?!”), so there’s a lot of people who’d want to see it knocked offline, both permanently or for even just a limited time.
I think it is bullshit - I think it’s a disingenuous justification intended to hide sinister motives.
