Internet crackdown: Trump toadies scrub truth from Web sites

Posted by | January 25, 2017 11:28 | Filed under: Media/Show Business Politics

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If it looks like a crackdown on truth that would contradict petrogarchy or kakistocracy* – well, it’s probably because it is.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-President Barack Obama’s climate change initiatives.

The employees were notified by EPA officials on Tuesday that the administration had instructed EPA’s communications team to remove the website’s climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research, as well as detailed data on emissions. The page could go down as early as Wednesday, the sources said.

“If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear,” one of the EPA staffers told Reuters, who added some employees were scrambling to save some of the information housed on the website, or convince the Trump administration to preserve parts of it.

The sources asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The EPA is far from the only agency being told to shut up:

Federal agencies are clamping down on public information and social media in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, limiting employees’ ability to issue news releases, tweet, make policy pronouncements or otherwise communicate with the outside world, according to memos and sources from multiple agencies.

The steps to mute federal employees — seen to varying degrees in the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of the Interior, Transportation, Agriculture and Health and Human Services — are sparking early fears of a broader crackdown across the government, as Trump vows to pursue an agenda sharply at odds with his predecessor.

* Kakistocracy (kak·is·toc·ra·cy) – government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. Origin of kakistocracy. Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy.


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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

16 responses to Internet crackdown: Trump toadies scrub truth from Web sites

  1. Buford2k11 January 25th, 2017 at 11:44

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/edf14fdacab7e69991cae2713a098ab3e473f193257061c0c143c211447c0bc3.jpg
    you cannot hide the truth for very long…no matter what you do…we are in the process of a dictatorial shutdown of our government…allied with the republicans in congress…

    • Hirightnow January 25th, 2017 at 16:14

      …couldn’t find a picture of a sheep?

    • Suzanne McFly January 25th, 2017 at 17:05

      Beautiful animal, drives me nuts that someone would murder him.

  2. The Original Just Me January 25th, 2017 at 13:47

    Control the Information Sources. Straight Out Of Hitler’s Hand Book.

  3. amersham1046 January 25th, 2017 at 15:42

    But Trump will still be on Twitter, with no limitations —
    So Sad

  4. Hirightnow January 25th, 2017 at 16:13

    This won’t work, without help.
    Let’s hope that there’s people out there who won’t help.

  5. granpa.usthai January 25th, 2017 at 23:05

    well, we all know the alternative world these deplorable derps are living in, so this and more is no surprise.

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