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Related tweet: "Today Trump removed all open data (9GB) from the White House https://open.whitehouse.gov/browse https://open.whitehouse.gov/browse but I grabbe

• weaksauce 10y ago
  Why did trump do this? What was in the data? Could this be an error?
  • deleted 10y ago
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  • ajones 10y ago
    It isn't an error. If you click into one of the individual data sources (links available on the home page), you see messages like this: > This page is being updated. It will post records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis, once they become available. > This page is being updated. It will post records of White House staff salaries as the data becomes available for the Trump Administration.
    • huydotnet 10y ago
      No request sent from the browser
  • sizzzzlerz 10y ago
    I think the Russians were concerned about its availability.
  • OedipusRex 10y ago
    I'd argue that Trump probably doesn't have a clue this even exist, someone else dictated it's archival/removal.
    • wry_discontent 10y ago
      President Bannon's orders
• lucaspiller 10y ago
  If anyone wants to help out with these sorts of preservation projects https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ are good places to start.
  • toomuchtodo 10y ago
    #archiveteam on efnet irc EDIT: Looks like Jason Scott is aware of the WH.gov dump and has offered to ingest at the Internet Archive: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/831585297003458560 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/831585297003458560