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White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling
oscarcar writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting on the White House website's use of its robots.txt file to disable search engines from crawling certain material. Many excluded items in the robots.txt file involve mentions of Iraq, possibly to prevent people from finding changes to past statements and information when archived elsewhere."
Congratulations to simoniker, poster of the most inanely paranoid comment I have ever read here on slashdot. And that's saying something.
Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
oh dear lord, thats the most paranoid thing I have ever heard. lets turn off the internet now.
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If you're surprised by this, THAT's the news, not what the White House is doing with this information control. Click here for a list of the White House's policies with restricting FOI and other related requests since Sept 11th.
This isn't partisan politics, either. The Republican party has been trying to keep Bush from violating the Presidential Records Act.
Yes, yes, the country's at war. Makes you wonder why Bush doesn't want anybody to know about communications between Reagan and his advisors.
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The technology they introduced in 1968 allows them to rewrite the books and the newspapers. The next step is to make sure that the old copies get burned reliably. America was always in war with Iraq, you know...
It's appropriate to use robots.txt or similar mechanisms to discourage spiders from requesting data too fast and slashdotting the site, and while you'd hope that spammerbots would have the sense not to search the site, as long as they're rate-limited, that's ok too. There may be some honeypots to slow them down...
(Stuff they don't want us to see goes on cia.gov or halliburton.com.)
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Yes, but the comments in question were conditional on the day we become a dictatorship so the probability they will attract notice is much less.
There are quite a few people being watched because they threatened the life of a current or past president. There is a federal law that requires the secret service to investigate every single one.
Of course in the new Ashcroft USA where the bill of rights is now regarded as advice that the executive is free to ignore when inconvenient it probably isn't such a great idea to say such things.
It is probably a better idea to work to prevent the election of Bush in 2004. Between Diebold, Fox News and Ashcroft it may be the last time we get the chance.
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Yeah, sure, if you repeat it enough you might actually start to believe that. I pray that worms invade your intestines.
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IANAP.
Thank heaven.
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Liberals, Republicans, Nazi's, and Libritarians agree, the media is out to get them.
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An honorable country would not pack 19 men onto airplanes to crash into civilian buildings, trapping the people inside to choose between a burning hell or a jump to certain death.
The people in Guantanamo are from Afganistan (and probably now Iraq). The people who hijacked the planes were from Saudi Arabia. Iraq and Afganistan: invaded. Saudi Arabia: not invaded.
Dumbass.
Yes, I DO question your patriotism, because it seems like you sure as hell don't love what our country stands for.
Uh huh. It also seems that you have no grip on reality, dumbass. But thats okay, this is a free country, and you are feel to free to wave a flag while sitting on your ass and call yourself a patriot, blindly believing whatever Karl Rove tells you.
Dumbass.