Lost webpages?
Submitted by sjyeo on Tue, 2007-05-29 21:13.
CBS reported that the Alabama Department of Homeland Security has a website that listed groups they consider possible terrorists. However, after the agency received complaints from people, some Web pages were removed from the list.
The original list of the groups that the agency considered possible terrorists were:
- Environmentalists
- Anti-Genetics (those opposed to genetically-altered crops)
- Animal Rights
- Anti-Abortion
- Anti-Nuclear
- Anti-War
- Pro-Gay Right
This is a classic example of the abuse that can occur when a politically motivated governmental body controls information without any sort of vetting process. I am wondering if any library or individuals were able to capture the removed websites. Or will this be a permanently lost document? I did a quick, not thorough search in the WayBack Machine but no luck.
Update 5/29/2007
Thanks to Valerie for pointing out this page has been saved by a library/archives agency.
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Wayback Machine not good for current year
I don't know whether it's a technology issue or a social issue, but I never see Wayback Machine pages for the current year on a site, and sometimes nothing for the previous year either.
So unless we've got reason to be believe that something has been out there for a year plus, the Wayback Machine isn't the best place to go.
You'd think that after a century of badgering progressives without finding a single instance of a genuine threat to national security, the US government and its subunits would focus elsewhere.
Hopefully one day this will happen!
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
Archive-It and the Alabama State Archives
The Alabama State Archives is using Archive-It to try & save Alabama State Gov't sites. I was able to find this page - I think it's the one you're talking about.
nicely done!
Thanks for the help Valerie. I'd love to have a search interface to search all of the various archive-it collections. Can you tell us how you've found the archive-it tool/service?
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