News Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites

[Admin]

Data hoarders are working overtime to save federal websites that are in danger of being wiped.

Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites : Read more

 

[Heiro78]

It's a bad day when what was free information is being stripped. I've probably never visited any of these sites but it sucks to see them going since I'm sure others utilize them regularly.

 

[Gururu]

1) Delete history
2) Rewrite history

 

[bit_user]

One can also donate to archive.org

 

[_dawn_chorus_]

"Under his eye"

 

[dimar]

Reminds me when Intel took down all motherboard BIOS files from their site, I took my time to save all of it.

 

[3tank]

Seemed ok when orgs like the internet archive were deleting items on their own end that were inconvenient to the last party in charge

 

[bit_user]

Seemed ok when orgs like the internet archive were deleting items on their own end that were inconvenient to the last party in charge

Deleting something for political reasons goes against the ethos of a true archivist. I don't believe it was Internet Archive that you're thinking of.

 

[helper800]

"Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves."
-Geraldine Brooks

 

[Heiro78]

Seemed ok when orgs like the internet archive were deleting items on their own end that were inconvenient to the last party in charge

I only spent around 5 minutes looking, but this is the only related article I could find to the Internet Archive deleting data.

PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data & accounts ⌘I Get Info

Recently at Internet Archive a “glitch” (their choice of word) deleted a great many accounts, including my account that had been at archive.org/details/@ging...

blog.gingerbeardman.com

Can you clarify what you mean or point to a news article about it?

 

[thestryker]

The only good thing is that everyone saw this coming from a ways away. The extra bad part is that it's far more widespread than the last time.

This is one of those things where you'd like to see the preservation of data codified in law. Not to say that the websites need not change as administrations come and go, but simply that any public data remain accessible in some form.

 

[USAFRet]

As usual, comments are straying FAR beyond the contents of the article.

As such....closed to any more comments.