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The War on Public Knowledge

SnapShot writes "There's a very scary article at slate about the revision and reclassification of public, U.S. Government documents made available over the last thirty years. This is supposedly to protect us from the terrorists. Do you feel safer?"

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  1. Tactics by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The current administration doesn't want to help compile their own "I messed up..."-list.

    For example, if they disclose the former environmental data from the Environmental Protection Agency, nobody can easily compare actual data with the old data.

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    Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/