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.”
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.
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?
It’s easier to treat alternative facts as actual when the actual facts no longer is an alternative.
Public datasets, American property, paid for by American citizens. Deleting such things is a kind of vandalism, a property crime.
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
Publicly available? Not likely… But just in general, I am sure. The stuff we see is just the tip of ice berg.
Treason has a very narrow legal definition in the US. For example, my example of the Russia thing a lawyer would argue falls outside the bounds of treason. I think the only slam dunks would be any cooperation with North Korea (as we never really ended the war with them) and Iran. I bet stuff around Venezuela could also fall into treason category, but that one is much more iffy like the Russia thing.
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.
to keep the inbred r voters ignorant.
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…
I dream of a day all these people get killed or maimed.
Pain Threshold (success): No way out but through, now.
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
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.
It’s only reality if there is proof, no proof, no pudding…/s
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.
