Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. What's going on?
The answer is more complicated than you might think.
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.
They are blowing up the system from within. Our worst fears are materializing in front of our eyes. In just a few weeks.
Is been 13 days, so not even 2 weeks in and we've already had:
And that's just from the tip of my tongue, I'm sure theres more shit I have not had the time to read.
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
What do you wanna bet they aren't just being scrubbed from the web, but actually destroyed.
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.
Well, the donvict thugs will be coming for the Wayback Machine next.
Yeah, archive.org should probably consider moving to a free country.
Hopefully they start making hidden backups
