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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 7 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 2.018s | source | bottom
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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 13:33 UTC] No.42898165[source]▶
This is part of a broader rolling catastrophe. Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-31/exclus...

Nasa took down their applied sciences page and is evidently scrubbing the data

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1icqchv/why_is_the_nas...

(https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/)

Lots of other data sets are disappearing too:

https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-s...

There is active discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

as well as at https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/

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bmitc ◴[01 Feb 25 14:37 UTC] No.42898615[source]▶
How is this not all illegal? How are cease and resists not being put into place? An illegal immigrant, narcissist, billionaire, and many other things is taking over federal agencies and actively purging them for his own ideologies.
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mort96 ◴[01 Feb 25 14:56 UTC] No.42898764[source]▶
I see these kinds of comments regularly and am curious: what is your thought process? What makes you think that it's not illegal? What makes you think that legality matters here?
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1. bmitc ◴[01 Feb 25 19:07 UTC] No.42901154[source]▶
Can you just state what you would like to?
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2. mort96 ◴[01 Feb 25 21:05 UTC] No.42902320[source]▶
I did
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3. bmitc ◴[01 Feb 25 21:26 UTC] No.42902524[source]▶
You made no statements.
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4. mort96 ◴[01 Feb 25 22:15 UTC] No.42902968{3}[source]▶
Correct, I asked a question, which is what I wanted to do :)
5. DangitBobby ◴[01 Feb 25 23:48 UTC] No.42903818{3}[source]▶
They are saying it's likely illegal but it doesn't matter because the law does not apply to certain people. No consequences for illegal activity will ever touch Trump or Musk.
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6. mp05 ◴[02 Feb 25 00:32 UTC] No.42904158{3}[source]▶
"I see these kinds of comments regularly and am curious"

This clearly states the person's feelings (curiosity) about some observations (seeing comments of a particular sort).

7. mort96 ◴[02 Feb 25 12:01 UTC] No.42908124{4}[source]▶
Well that is my opinion of the situation, but other people had already covered that well enough so I didn't feel the need to. I was curious about what thought process results in the assumption that what they're doing is legal, so I asked.