The government shut down the ncov19 site that listed statistics re epidemic

[Hamlette]

I noticed the site was down Thursday eve and sent the owner a message on facebook. He replied:

We are aware of it. Due to the government...Thank you to like the page. Please invite your friends and ask them to like Avi Schiffmann as well. Let's spread peace.

It was a great site. You can see where it was on Thursday and how much easy to access information was avail. I'm not sure what liking his facebook page will do but I'd recommend all facebook user do so.

[The empressof all]

2. It's up..

https://ncov2019.live/data

[judesedit]

3. Those are numbers from yesterday or the day before

At least that's what I'm getting.

[The empressof all]

4. I'm seeing that it is current...but

on the left side bar it does say the state numbers have been temporarily removed...So looks like something is going on with it.

[judesedit]

5. up to 2,313,897

[Hamlette]

7. is ncov18 showing 2,313,897?

I"m seeing 2,178,149. Same as its been for nearly 2 days.

[Hamlette]

6. what you are seeing is info from Thursday evening

it has not updated since. It is shut down "due to the government".

[The empressof all]

13. Ugh...WTF

He's a teenager but I hope someone in his circle is contacting the ACLU...I can't imagine the Trumps could defend a national security claim

[Ms. Toad]

8. I doubt it.

There are at least a dozen pages reporting the same data. (1) The government woud not bother shutting down one of them but not the others. (2) There is no basis for the government to shut it down.

[Squinch]

10. They haven't updated since Thursday. They are showing

the US at 675k US cases. Other sites have been updating and show 718k US cases.

Why would the kid who runs the site lie?

[Ms. Toad]

11. Because he's a kid and doesn't understand what the government can/is likely to do.

Think logically, for a moment.

If the other sites have been updating their information, what possible motivation would "the government" have for targeting his site? What mechanism would allow "the government" to shut it down.

I don't think it's a matter of lying - I think it's a matter of inexperience.

[Squinch]

12. Lol. He's a private citizen who can be more easily pushed around

by this government than an institution.

You think logically.

[Ms. Toad]

14. So they suppress one voice that is reporting identical information to every other site

They really accomplished a lot by hiding one of dozens of sites with the exact same information, didn't they?

Did he say how he found out the government shut it down?
And - oh - it's not actually shut down it is still sitting there just not updated. If they were going to shut it down, why wouldn't they have totally wiped it out?
Did he say what basis they gave him for shutting it down?

This is just silly.

[Squinch]

15. Sigh. Have a lovely evening.

[Hamlette]

16. thanks

can you point me to another site with the same info?

I'm jonesing here

[Ms. Toad]

17. I use worldometers.

worldometers.com

Also:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR13GYbHJLCs1iHp45SgAEs0eCWvvWbGoxLQbtA08OxXpf0Y_6Aa6QlAcZI#states

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

Off the top of my head.

[Squinch]

9. That is horrifying. That was the best site. But anything to hide the

numbers, I guess.

[Squinch]

18. They're entirely gone now.

Is there any more information on what happened, or why they shut the kid down?

This is very dusturbing.

[Squinch]

19. And NOW, they're back!