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vividspecter@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. What's going on?

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Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. What's going on?

mashable.com

vividspecter@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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    Fascism.

    And there’s really only one solution.

    • Turret3857@infosec.pub
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      what is the solution?

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        Idk, Davie, how’d they beat fascism last time?

        • Turret3857@infosec.pub
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          with 3 of the worlds current super powers. at the moment it looks like the only superpowers who want to push back against the fascists are thr EU and if you want to count Canada as a super power, Canada. I dont know if that will be enough.

          edit: to add clarity to my standpoint, its not that I want fascism to win; its that I’m scared that with the backing of the US military and RU military that we may be in for a very bad time if anyone decides to go nuclear.

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      We’re talking protests right? Like the George Floyd ones that totally ended racist policing. Right? … Right?..

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        I think it’s more Luigi and less Floyd

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          *the Adjuster.

          Luigi is a well known name now for sure but we don’t really know that he did it. And even if you just go along with the official story, he should still be innocent until proven guilty.

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    Burning those libraries

    Just fascist things

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      They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em

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        Yup

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          Yes, but technically they merely just removed the reference from the file table. If they don’t start writing too much additional data we can recover those data sets - there’s still time!

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    The outlet reports that deleted datasets “disproportionately” come from environmental science agencies like the Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

    Gosh.

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    They are blowing up the system from within. Our worst fears are materializing in front of our eyes. In just a few weeks.

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      Is been 13 days, so not even 2 weeks in and we’ve already had:

      • 2 aerial incidents with fatalities
      • Officials in Charge resigning
      • an undeniable comeback of neo Nazism
      • prosecutors and investigators from Jan 6 fired
      • ICE raids on several states
      • Price increases in groceries, eggs, gas
      • A 60 year setback for DEI policies
      • LGBTQ rights affected
      • Import Tariffs for both our biggest trading partners

      And that’s just from the tip of my tongue, I’m sure theres more shit I have not had the time to read.

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    What do you wanna bet they aren’t just being scrubbed from the web, but actually destroyed.

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      This is why all publicly funded data should be openly available to everyone, so it can be replicated and no single dictator can destroy it.

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    All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive
    hopefully it’s there, if not try asking in r/datahoarder or r/datasets

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    Well, the donvict thugs will be coming for the Wayback Machine next.

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      Yeah, archive.org should probably consider moving to a free country.

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      Hopefully they start making hidden backups

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

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