A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
As we have been following since the beginning of Trump’s second term, websites across the entire federal government have been altered and taken offline under this administration’s war on science, health, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Critical information promoting vaccines, HIV care, reproductive health options including abortion, and trans and gender confirmation healthcare have been purged from the CDC’s live website under Trump. Disease surveillance data about bird flu and other concerns have either been delayed or have stopped being updated entirely. Some deleted pages across the government have at least temporarily been restored thanks to a court order, but the Trump administration has added a note rejecting “gender ideology” to some of them.
“Our goal is to provide a resource that includes the information and data previously available,” the team wrote. “We are committed to providing the previously available webpages and data, from before the potential tampering occurred. Our approach is to be as transparent as possible about our process. We plan to gather archival data and then remove CDC logos and branding, using GitHub to host our code to create the site.”
I was just thinking earlier today: I really, really hope someone is backing up the Library of Congress’ stuff, particularly Chronicling America, which has almost every newspaper issue (searchable by text and much more) from 1756 - 1963. Like archive.org – federal edition, sort of.
Anyway, given how fascists love to erase history, it’s precisely the kind of thing I could see them targeting. Particularly if you wanted to erase the fact that, oh, I don’t know, your father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927. That kinda thing.
Aren’t there also a bunch of govt officials making alts on bluesky to try to somewhat anonymously get info out?
Alt National Park Service comes to mind. They’re doing incredible work
Data preservationists are beating back the coming dark age. They’re heroes.
And they called us data hoarders!
They’re either beating it back or delaying it. I hope it’s the former, but I fear it’s the latter.
If they screw shit up too much there are already the nerdiest of nerds working on decentralized wireless networks. They’d be slow is heck, but I heard many people prefer web 1.0 over todays’ bloated crap anyway.
https://source.coop/ Someone put up 16tb of data.gov data here too
It’s weird living in a world where people are rescuing our past from the Ministry of Information sponsored Memory Hole.
It’s weird watching Idiocracy become a documentary in real-time. When farmers can’t get fertilizers from Canada, I’m waiting for Trump and Elon to announce a partnership with Gatorade as the new Crop Quencher.
Censoring communications is 1984, not Idiocracy.
We can live in both at the same time.
At least he’ll fix the ecomoney
Didn’t he already fix it? Aren’t we past day one?
Mad levels of respect for these people
Can this be made into a .zim for Kiwix?
Can we send another copy to New Zealand?
Just in case?
It doesn’t matter where its hosted
Yes it does matter
Why?
If you use your brain a bit more you might figure out why
That’s not nice
Why not
Why would it?
Remember, they also took the constitution off of Whitehouse.gov
Once on the internet, always on the internet.
but many website archives are slow to use and difficult to navigate because things like interactive elements and internal linking can sometimes be wonky.
Well, at least httrack does the relinking by itself. And i think wget’s mirror option too?
Good to see people taking “information demands to be free” seriously.
Hosting in Europe is the Cherry on top.
You data horders are insane. I love it.
