[IP] WH censoring its website?
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:02:35 -0500
From: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: WH censoring its website?
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001450.shtml
If so, it conspiracy theories abound......
Rick
-infowarrior.org
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001450.shtml#001450>White
House Website and History
? posted by <mailto:dgillmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Dan Gillmor 09:17 AM
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<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001450.shtml#001450>permanent
link to this item
Democratic National Committee Blog:
<http://www.democrats.org/blog/display/00010130.html>Enabling historical
revisionism. Sometime between April 2003 and October 2003, someone at the
White House added virtually all of the directories with "Iraq" in them to
its robots.txt file, meaning that search engines would no longer list those
pages in results or archive them.
Perhaps the White House doesn't want to make it easy for people to compare
its older statements about Iraq with current realities -- though that
doesn't explain why the pages are searchable on the White House site
itself. Maybe, then, the White House wants to know who's looking for these
things (e.g. by tracking IP addresses of people who query the government
site).
Either way, the blocking of search engines is a bad idea, and fundamentally
an abuse of the public trust.
What should be done about this? I'd suggest a manual-labor cooperative, of
people willing to download the daily feed from the White House, mirror it
and ensure that people can search without having their IP addresses logged.
If you have a better idea, post a comment.
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