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Why are whitehouse.gov web pages disappearing?
- aphextron 10y agoWhy is this surprising? Of course a new administration is not going to leave policy oriented web pages from a previous one online.
- shorsher 10y agoAgreed. This seems to be true for many pages besides civil rights and climate change, such as education. [0] 0:https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education
- banhfun 10y agoHow is this news? This would have occurred even if Hillary Clinton or anyone else was elected president.
- waterphone 10y agoBecause it makes for a good, sensationalist headline to pick a random page that used to be up and say "Trump removes page about <key topic>!" and all the people who just read headlines freak out and spread it around, everyone conveniently ignoring that the entire website was replaced, so of course old pages will be gone.
- chomp 10y agoThis isn't really news, all of the old content was migrated to obamawhitehouse.gov, since that was the Obama administration's website.
- waterphone 10y agoBecause the entire website was taken down and replaced with a new Trump White House website. This happens every time a new President takes over.
- jrnichols 10y agoThe ones that seem to be flipping out about this have been the typical anti-Trump sources. Vox Media sites were some of the first I saw this on, and it spread from there.
- omilu 10y agoTLDR: The content has not been deleted. Rather, it has been moved. And it was expected, as it has been standard procedure for when a new president has taken over in the digital age.
- MR4D 10y agoClickbait. Sad from Boston Globe to stoop to this level.
- rhizome 10y agoGet ready for more, it may be that the only way to neuter national discontent with Trump is with outrage fatigue.