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I'm guessing whoever is sending those letters snapshotted the CSAM on archive.today themselves to have leverage to take them down.
It's the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations... I guarantee it. This is analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN's, DNS, encryption, our private communication systems, and our education, legal, political, and judicial systems.
Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet, especially tools that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal.
Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.
Web archives preserve information the US Government has deleted, like reports on the economy, climate change, and Black history. In general they work against censorship of the internet. This is just another case of using "protecting the children" as a cudgel to kill politically inconvenient sources of information.