Defund the organization in charge of checking and follow-ups is one thing, but its complete removal just smell of incompetence or acknowledging of wrongdoing, or some sort of performance.
And the response is also baffling. "sorry we migrated it systems and accidentally took it down" is the handwave i expected. not "we follow the law regardless so it's not needed".
I obviously do not condone the behavior of taking down such a website. I truly wish such reports were taking with the utmost severity.
As evidence, look what happened to those that were involved in the violation of human rights in Abu Ghraib Prision [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
On a weekly basis now, they are blowing up civilian boats without any evidence wrong doing. Even if they had evidence, it still wouldn’t warrant using hellfire missiles on civilian ships, especially when the U.S. navy or coastguard is more than capable of intercept these ships.
This week we took down the "Warcrime report form" because its hosting costs the same as the office coffee machine maintenance.
.. oo gee, mabie that one sounds a bit important. perhaps I should leave that running.