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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPrecedent Trump Issues Executive Order Shutting Down Archive.org
President Donald Trump today issued an Executive Order that will rid the world of archive.org, that repository of everything that has been public on the Internet since shortly after its beginnings. In comments at the signing ceremony, he stated, "Nobody needs to go look at old stuff on the Internet. There's plenty to see that is current. Many people are embarrassed at things they put online, so why should those things be thrown in their face weeks or months later? We don't need this, so I'm shutting it down, believe me! About time, too."
Questions have already been raised regarding the First Amendment and about whether a President can actually legally engage in such censorship. Some are saying that Trump is just trying to hide the stupid things he has said, lies he has told, and promises he has made that he has no intention of keeping. President Trump dismissed this, as voiced by his press secretary, Sean Spicer, who said late this afternoon: "The President has nothing to hide. He's an open book. He says everything that comes into his mind immediately, as you all know. Why should everything he, or anyone else for that matter, has ever said live forever in some stupid archive? This is not about President Trump, so stop saying that. It's fake news! You media people should only be interested in what the President says next, not what he said at some time in the past. Give us a break, folks!"
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)MineralMan
(146,189 posts)I'm sure he can do anything. Or he's sure he can do anything. Or something like that. Otherwise, he'd be "Unprecedented."
MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)I'm serious folks, can he DO THAT? W. T. F. ????? I'm more alarmed about this than anything having to do with Russia.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)At least, I don't think so. The Donald, though, has extraordinary powers. He's just that amazing, don't you agree?
MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)I agree that he is amazing...at all things awful.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Of course if Rump continues it'll be fought in the courts, and this fascist impulse will be stomped on. 2018, here we come!
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)not government. Are we talking about the same organization?
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)We're just having fun here with a MM satire post.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts).
Then, folks get spanked for being duped by them.
It trains everyone to suspect everything and not assume things are what they appear.
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"government" form that lacked the secure notation in the address as a first clue that something was very wrong. My husband and son got to spend hours cleaning that up. We hope.
Itm, I'm trying to train myself, without the slap (my guys are nice), into scrutinizing site info and URLs for deception.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)Satire. Don't let on, though...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)impulse leaped to accept the worst and only after a while did this move on from my emotional center for rational analysis. Just hope the delay until "huh?" kicked in was due to slicing Andouille into a pot of beans. Not a multitasker these days.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)I was supposed to have you at "Precedent"
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and you guys'd certainly be welcome any time.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Don't freak us out like this please.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)Trump is a walking, breathing satire generator. A bottomless source of potential ridicule. A veritable artesian well of satirical possibilities.
I fear I cannot stop...
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)There's very little room left for hyperbole and satire when real life events are wildly extreme and ridiculous already.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)is taken as truth these days. I may have to start being less subtle, I suppose.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)To be funny it needs people to feel slightly silly afterwards for having fallen for the story.
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)Petrushka
(3,709 posts)Nowadays, one can never be too sure.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Unbelievable!
dreamland
(964 posts)Let's put all those dumb statements through the shredder now! Still, I wonder if there is something on the internet that he is afraid of being exposed that we haven't found yet. I wouldn't put anything past these crooks.
Princess Turandot
(4,784 posts)There's now actual precedent in several federal courts for the Wayback Machine's webpage copies being allowed into evidence. The US patent office also allows it to be used as evidence of, err, important patent stuff.
It's an outrage! Activist judges strike again!