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posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045

A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.

Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.

Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.

They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.

The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @10:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @10:28PM (#442253)

    A couple of problems: on SN you probably won't find too many politically focused people who follow every political news item. This means most are limited to the article at hand and whatever thoughts they've gathered overall. Next you have Trump who isn't even president yet so all we can do is speculate for the most part. Complaining about hyperbole? I think its better to waste some hot air on hyperbole in the chance it keeps people alerted to a full fascist take over.

    For hard evidence you'll be waiting for Trump to screw things up, come back when that happens. Or better yet, leave! I can tell from

    the left could possibly muster that you have your own axe to grind.

    On this particular article I've seen a lot of good points and decent discussion, so I don't know what your problem is.