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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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594 points geox | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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timr[dead post] ◴[02 Jul 25 23:34 UTC] No.44449975[source]▶
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chaoskitty ◴[02 Jul 25 23:47 UTC] No.44450066[source]▶
That's hopelessly naive. A "misconfiguration" is the excuse they use after the fact when there's enough outrage that they have to put things back the way they were.
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timr ◴[02 Jul 25 23:53 UTC] No.44450104[source]▶
I'm not being hopelessly naive. It's certainly possible that they took it down with the explicit intention of hiding information on the internet, but that would also be pretty stupid, since various articles have found the reports on other government servers. So I assume incompetence before malice.

What's already known is that they fired the staff who prepared the report, and are presumably shutting down the agency. Is it really surprising that someone might have turned off the webserver before transferring the domain?

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1. philosopher1234 ◴[03 Jul 25 05:16 UTC] No.44451859[source]▶
Yes you are. If you’re arguing in good faith then you should try to answer this question:

How far does it have to go before you assume malice? Do they have to tell you “I am malicious”? And if someone malicious is using the “dont admit it” strategy are you fucked?