Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
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Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#2So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#3So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
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Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#4So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
This is not an objection against saving hosting costs, it is the fact that the original data is not saved or backed up.
To understand our future we need to know our past.
Saving shelf space in the library is not a good justification to burn our history books. If you don’t like having them up, you can put them in the basement. Storage costs hardly anything.
Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#5So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
It is presented as an attack against the left, which is popular with proponents of the current administration. Trying to analyze it at the object level is pointless - this is, chiefly, a political move toward political ends.
Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#6So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
This is not an objection against saving hosting costs, it is the fact that the original data is not saved or backed up. To understand our future we need to know our past. Saving shelf space in the library is not a good justification to burn our history books. If you don’t like having them up, you can put them in the basement. Storage costs hardly anything.
This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision.
It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.
Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#7So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
So, we're saving money on shelf space by burning those books. What's the problem?!
Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not an objection against saving hosting costs, it is the fact that the original data is not saved or backed up. To understand our future we need to know our past. Saving shelf space in the library is not a good justification to burn our history books. If you don’t like having them up, you can put them in the basement. Storage costs hardly anything.
This is of course a deliberate move. By actively destroying ideas and work you don’t agree with, rather than archiving it, you make it harder for the other side to realize their vision. It’s a kind of scorched earth strategy.
Especially if done from the official archives, since you can then claim any copies are ‘fake news’/forgeries.
Re: Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
#9So, are the feds saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this.
It is presented as an attack against the left, which is popular with proponents of the current administration. Trying to analyze it at the object level is pointless - this is, chiefly, a political move toward political ends.
Really it’s just an attack against any truth/data found inconvenient. Why argue when you can just make it not exist?
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#10They already deleted the main USAID YouTube channel, likely so news media can't easily pull any public domain footage of projects in various developing nations.