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Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet

Posted by Unknown on from the history-is-no-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes news of an attempt to erase a bit of history. From the article: "The Conservative Party have attempted to delete all their speeches and press releases online from the past 10 years, including one in which David Cameron promises to use the Internet to make politicians 'more accountable'. The Tory party have deleted the backlog of speeches from the main website and the Internet Archive — which aims to make a permanent record of websites and their content — between 2000 and May 2010."

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  1. Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lucky they now have secret blacklists at every major UK ISP to block these. Think of the children that would be harmed by reading these speeches!

    FTFA:

    In a remarkable step the party has also blocked access to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a San-Francisco-based library which captures webpages for future generations, using a software robot that directs search engines not to access the pages.

  2. Re:Lol! Good luck with that by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    No problem. Just look right here.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  3. Re:The problem is career politicians by niks42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Small problem with your sig there ..

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