#truthyness

Flushing Government Websites He Wants Gone

You have got to see this. It was written for university faculty who have always used government websites in the teaching of their courses and in researching the books they publish. The websites have been taken down. The public can no longer access the information that had formerly been freely and readily available.

How about this Orwellian warning:

"A new presidential administration typically brings significant changes to federal government websites. What is not typical, however, is the pressure faced by executive agencies in the second Trump administration to remove data and take down websites that conflict with the president's political views as outlined in his executive orders.

“It has become increasingly common for government data sets that were previously publicly available to be removed. Some of these datasets may be altered and made available again, while others may remain offline indefinitely. "

1984 much??

If we have to have Big Brother (Musk) and his sidekick (Trump) serving 1984 vibes, can we at least use Orwell’s agency names? I’m particularly a fan of the

Ministry of Truth