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Wiki on us constitution Clause being deleted from Congress.gov
“ On or about August 6, 2025, part of Section 8 and all of sections 9 and 10 were deleted from the Library of Congress's Constitution Annotated website on congress.gov.[2] Later that day, in response to inquiries, the Library of Congress stated that this was "due to a coding error" and that they were "working to correct this".[3][2]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution
- ngcc_hk 1y agoMy life as an IT guy always wonder … is this really coding error or I was blamed again for user fault (or intended “action”).
- gnabgib 1y agoLots of discussion about this today: The online Congressional copy of the Constitution is missing sections 9 and 10 (23 points, 16 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808145 Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections (227 points, 8 hours ago, 134 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811733 Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff (136 points, 7 hours ago, 65 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812375 Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website (67 points, 5 hours ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44814204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44814204 Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus from the Constitution on Its Website (51 points, 3 hours ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816077
- salawat 1y agoI could see this as an accidental test case to see how much one can get away with memory holing, and what portions of the Internet are instrumental in resisting the process of memory holing.