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More than 2,000 datasets of U.S. open data hosted on data.gov have been removed -- since Trump took POTUS (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If anyone is writing or maintaining a playbook/handbook for how to run an authoritarian regime, removing open data would be a play to add.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those are really useful for industry…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

And students

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Knee-jerk fix: we make a FOIA request for the data that was removed.

But the shame of it is that FOIA reqs are not gratis, which means we have to pay again for the data. Elon’s DOGE office would just see it as a success that they are getting extra compensation for the data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Hey, we paid for that shit! Put it back!