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TNforPaul45
08-01-2013, 10:44 AM
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130726/01200123954/obama-promise-to-protect-whistleblowers-just-disappeared-changegov.shtml


The folks from the Sunlight Foundation have noticed that the Change.gov website, which was set up by the Obama transition team after the election in 2008 has suddenly been scrubbed of all of its original content (http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/25/obama-promises-disappear-from-web/). They noted that the front page had pointed to the White House website for a while, but you could still access a variety of old material and agendas. They were wondering why the administration would suddenly pull all that interesting archival information... and hit upon a clue.

Orwellian Memory Hole Indeed. Their disregard for the intelligence of the American public is reaching pathetic levels!

http://i.imgur.com/RfkkQh6.png

tod evans
08-01-2013, 10:47 AM
Oh, but there's new and improved policy afoot, rat on eachother in order to protect government is policy de-jour....

GunnyFreedom
08-01-2013, 10:52 AM
The content appears to have been restored as of July 30th. The wayback machine has it all disappearing sometime around or before July 26, and then re-appearing July 30, and it appears to be live right now.

http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/


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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/

TNforPaul45
08-01-2013, 12:01 PM
The content appears to have been restored as of July 30th. The wayback machine has it all disappearing sometime around or before July 26, and then re-appearing July 30, and it appears to be live right now.

http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/


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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/

I noticed that too Gunny. Actually I found Change.gov this morning to look for Obama's statement, THEN discovered afterwards that it had actually been down for a few days. Thought it was interesting to share, and I hope the image above goes viral!

GunnyFreedom
08-01-2013, 01:08 PM
I noticed that too Gunny. Actually I found Change.gov this morning to look for Obama's statement, THEN discovered afterwards that it had actually been down for a few days. Thought it was interesting to share, and I hope the image above goes viral!

Some PR flak with half a brain probably went "Oh shit! Streisand effect!" and had it restored quietly.