Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.
These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities.
Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and developers that formed last year to monitor changes to government data.
“We’re at a very vulnerable point as a nation,” said Denice Ross, former US chief data scientist under the Biden administration and a cofounder of dataindex.us. “We’re facing a future where we are not going to have the information that we need to make decisions that will save lives and benefit American communities.”
It’s only reality if there is proof, no proof, no pudding…/s
Book burnings have always done wonders for removing inconvenient facts from circulation
Yes, but this doesn’t come with the usual emblematic photos of flames climbing high into the night and stray pages smouldering as they float among the embers.
It’s just someone in a windowless room running
sudo rm -rf /and depending on how thorough they are maybe writing zeros to the whole block deviceAnd likely anyone who’s not on lemmy will probably never hear about it…
Yes, the Nazis heavily changed history books, school lessons, and research papers. They rewrote the past to spread their racist ideas. They forced teachers to teach only approved facts. They removed books they did not like from all schools and libraries.
What the Nazis Changed
School books: They added false facts about race and blood. They taught that the German people were better than everyone else.
Science and papers: They rejected ideas they called “Jewish science,” like Albert Einstein’s work. They wrote new papers to support their false ideas about body types and race.
Burning books: They burned thousands of books in big public fires. These books were written by Jewish people or anyone who disagreed with Hitler.
Teacher control: They made teachers join a special group. If a teacher did not teach the Nazi way, they lost their job.
If you want, I can tell you more about:
How they burned books in 1933Specific school subjects they changed the most
Let me know what you would like to explore next.
thanks for vomiting ai output onto the page.
do you also shit in the living room in front of your family?
Only in your mouth you whore
I dream of a day all these people get killed or maimed.
I hope there are archives somewhere
I want to believe that those people are out there, those who “accidentally” mark the last good archive as never-delete, so it’s preserved in the backup infrastructure in the datacenter for a better day.
Oops. Guess we preserved the accurate facts. Shucks.
Yes, on Elon Musks Macbook.
We need to remember this - safeguarding data seems like an improvement we can make when the fascists are voted out. It’s bad enough when they lie to constituents about reality but we can make it harder for future despots to sabotage science
When government compels education, there’s an implication that knowledge is valued. Obviously this is not true when those who desire Christian Nationalism get in power. Our constitutional writers made a severe mistake by putting religion above government regulation. The unchanging church and its ignorance.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Pain Threshold (success): No way out but through, now.
It’s easier to treat alternative facts as actual when the actual facts no longer is an alternative.
This is indeed the era of Leibowicz, where important information is in threat of being destroyed by evil interests.
This is the goal of the enemies of the people that have take over the administration.
Someone explain to me how it is that a supposed “patriot” party like the Republican Party manages to do nearly everything Russia and/or China could ever want?
to keep the inbred r voters ignorant.
Public datasets, American property, paid for by American citizens. Deleting such things is a kind of vandalism, a property crime.
And yet when the average joe burns down an intrusive data center because he’s not paid a living wage, he gets arrested and jailed.
Two-tiered justice system working exactly as intended.
So, it’s public, it’s ours. They’re probably ridiculously huge but… there’s gotta be some data hoarders out there with some of them, right?
Archive.org maybe? Research university servers?
I hope this is as sloppily redacted as the Epstein files so they’re not gone for good…
Traitorous. Its treason. They’re destroying American property and causing terror. They are terrorists. The guy’s literally a convicted 38 count felon for stealing from the American people.
Don’t ever let them downplay or double speak those words
Treason is when Elon Musk’s DOGe team moved everything to an unsecured system that was immediately accessed by Russia like less than an hour after being created.
Im sure you could name one (or more!) treasonous activity the current administration has done for every week they’ve held majority without much difficulty at all
