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[ PRIVACY Forum ] UK conservatives attempting to erase their Internet
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Wed Nov 13 16:27:04 2013
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:52:25 -0800
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UK conservatives attempting to erase their Internet history
http://j.mp/1bpaKum (Computer Weekly)
"The Conservative Party has attempted to erase a 10-year backlog
of speeches from the internet, including pledges for a new kind
of transparent politics the prime minister and chancellor made
when they were campaigning for election. Prime minister David
Cameron and chancellor George Osborne campaigned on a promise to
democratise information held by those in power, so people could
hold them to account. They wanted to use the internet transform
politics. But the Conservative Party has removed the archive
from its public facing website, erasing records of speeches and
press releases going back to the year 2000 and up until it was
elected in May 2010. It also struck the record of their past
speeches off internet engines including Google, which had been a
role model for Cameron and Osborne's "open source politics". And
it erased the official record of their speeches from the Internet
Archive, the public record of the net - with an effect as
alarming as sending Men in Black to strip history books from a
public library and burn them in the car park."
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