This administration is taking down public websites and resources at an alarming rate. Including scientific documents, health surveys, project research documents that are referenced daily by government staff, contractors, and US international partners.
I recently became aware of this issue and this post made me interested to know if there are any comprehensive datasets tracking these take downs. Also would be interested to know what other efforts exist to archive at risk government websites.
Partial list of removed pages and entire websites I'm compiling:
- USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (stores 50yrs of international aid records) https://dec.usaid.gov/dec/
DoJ also removed all information about January 6th. We’re watching 1984 in real time. If it wasn’t happening in my country it would be interesting to watch the outcomes and how supporters contort themselves to say it’s ok.
It's not happening in my country and the contorsions I see only make me weep for humanity. This whole thing is horrifying, and it's happening to cheers.
I recently became aware of this issue and this post made me interested to know if there are any comprehensive datasets tracking these take downs. Also would be interested to know what other efforts exist to archive at risk government websites.
Partial list of removed pages and entire websites I'm compiling:
- USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (stores 50yrs of international aid records) https://dec.usaid.gov/dec/
- CDC HIV website https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/causes/index.html
- CDC Data Directory https://www.cdc.gov/datainfo.html
- CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.html
- USAID Agency wide portfolio management system https://dis.usaid.gov/
- Gender Links https://www.genderlinks.org/
- Edu Links https://www.edu-links.org/learning