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And in related news, Trump killed open.gov today. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170414/13382037153/trump-administration-kills-opengov-will-not-release-wh

And in related news, Trump killed open.gov today. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170414/13382037153/trump-administration-kills-opengov-will-not-release-white-house-visitor-logs.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170414/13382037153/trump...

joshmn 10y ago
And he wonders why people are increasingly skeptical of his administration.
- jonknee 10y ago
  I don't think he wonders about anything at all. He knows (and is wrong).
- flukus 10y ago
  Increasingly? Weren't most of his supporters somewhat skeptical from the start?
  - mistersys 10y ago
    His approval rating was highest his first week as president: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
    - Delmania 10y ago
      That's because he fired missiles in Syria and detonated the MOAB in Afghanistan. Whenever a president commits an act of war against a publicly perceived threat, their ratings get a temporary boost.
      - deleted 10y ago
        [deleted]
      - zie 10y ago
        Neither of these things were done the first week of his presidency.. He started in January, it's now April, which is when these events happened...
- coldtea 10y ago
  Because people read the ending of "the selective publication of White House visitor logs online" as something menacing? Especially if it was "selective" to begin with...
leggomylibro 10y ago
Jeez, nobody tell him about data.gov ...
- Holdont 10y ago
  Seems data.gov is down... though only technically
- woogiewonka 10y ago
  Is this a joke or not, I can't tell because none of the pages on data.gov load for me...
- theduncan 10y ago
  Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
  - mr_overalls 10y ago
    www.data.gov works for me
    - 24gttghh 10y ago
      Ditto; are there specific pages people are trying and not working?
    - outsidetheparty 10y ago
      Quite a few links, including the "Contact" page for every topic, are just showing an error message "Data.gov encountered an unexpected error. We apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that work is underway to correct this problem. Please check back in 15 minutes and thank you for using Data.gov." (which appears to be the same text they show as their generic 404 message.) For example https://www.data.gov/contact https://www.data.gov/contact and https://www.data.gov/climate/faq https://www.data.gov/climate/faq
      - outsidetheparty 10y ago
shimon_e 10y ago
The article you link to says it was last week. This was the selective publication of White House visitor logs online. Those logs still need to be submitted to the national archive. You can freely object to such changes. But the second people start spinning it into something much worse than what it is. I feel like they are playing politics and don't really care.
- efuquen 10y ago
  What exactly was the spin? The administration is literally killing the site open.gov, I don't see any bias with stating it exactly as it is: "White House officials said the Administration is ending the contract for Open.gov, the Obama-era site that hosted the visitor records along with staff financial disclosures, salaries, and appointments." As to your extra claim that visitor logs will be submitted to the national archive, do you have some reference to back that up? Regardless there are a number of ways that could make access more difficult. For example, you have to physically go to the national archive to look the records up, national archive of the logs aren't made available until much later after the visits occurred, etc. I'm really not familiar enough with it to know the implications, but I highly doubt multiple organizations would be suing over this if it wasn't an important difference: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328058-dhs-sued-for-not-releasing-white-house-visitor-logs http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328058-dhs-sued-f...

joshmn 10y ago

And he wonders why people are increasingly skeptical of his administration.

jonknee 10y ago
I don't think he wonders about anything at all. He knows (and is wrong).
flukus 10y ago
Increasingly? Weren't most of his supporters somewhat skeptical from the start?
- mistersys 10y ago
  His approval rating was highest his first week as president: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
  - Delmania 10y ago
    That's because he fired missiles in Syria and detonated the MOAB in Afghanistan. Whenever a president commits an act of war against a publicly perceived threat, their ratings get a temporary boost.
    - deleted 10y ago
      [deleted]
    - zie 10y ago
      Neither of these things were done the first week of his presidency.. He started in January, it's now April, which is when these events happened...
coldtea 10y ago
Because people read the ending of "the selective publication of White House visitor logs online" as something menacing? Especially if it was "selective" to begin with...

leggomylibro 10y ago

Jeez, nobody tell him about data.gov ...

Holdont 10y ago
Seems data.gov is down... though only technically
woogiewonka 10y ago
Is this a joke or not, I can't tell because none of the pages on data.gov load for me...
theduncan 10y ago
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
- mr_overalls 10y ago
  www.data.gov works for me
  - 24gttghh 10y ago
    Ditto; are there specific pages people are trying and not working?
  - outsidetheparty 10y ago
    Quite a few links, including the "Contact" page for every topic, are just showing an error message "Data.gov encountered an unexpected error. We apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that work is underway to correct this problem. Please check back in 15 minutes and thank you for using Data.gov." (which appears to be the same text they show as their generic 404 message.) For example https://www.data.gov/contact https://www.data.gov/contact and https://www.data.gov/climate/faq https://www.data.gov/climate/faq
    - outsidetheparty 10y ago

shimon_e 10y ago

The article you link to says it was last week. This was the selective publication of White House visitor logs online. Those logs still need to be submitted to the national archive. You can freely object to such changes. But the second people start spinning it into something much worse than what it is. I feel like they are playing politics and don't really care.

efuquen 10y ago
What exactly was the spin? The administration is literally killing the site open.gov, I don't see any bias with stating it exactly as it is: "White House officials said the Administration is ending the contract for Open.gov, the Obama-era site that hosted the visitor records along with staff financial disclosures, salaries, and appointments." As to your extra claim that visitor logs will be submitted to the national archive, do you have some reference to back that up? Regardless there are a number of ways that could make access more difficult. For example, you have to physically go to the national archive to look the records up, national archive of the logs aren't made available until much later after the visits occurred, etc. I'm really not familiar enough with it to know the implications, but I highly doubt multiple organizations would be suing over this if it wasn't an important difference: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328058-dhs-sued-for-not-releasing-white-house-visitor-logs http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328058-dhs-sued-f...