This is a very strange action. It's almost as if they thought that some simple technical tricks could remove things from the Internet. Now there will be even mo

This is a very strange action. It's almost as if they thought that some simple technical tricks could remove things from the Internet. Now there will be even more interest in comparing what they've said in the past with what is said in the future, and other organisations - now familiar with the Wayback Machine policy will keep mirrors. As a quick fix, the wonderful British Library has a service called www.webarchive.org.uk. Here are some speeches from 2008 : http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20081209103831/http://www.conservatives.com/News/SpeechList.aspx?SearchType=NewsDate&SearchTerm=080101-081231 http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20081209103831/... They also seem to have done something with their YT channel. For example, this video is dated Mar 21, 2007, but when viewing the channel and sorting by oldest first, it's not there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPpcuh7DF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPpcuh7DF8