From the Data Rescue Project: the Data Rescue Tracker. “The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help reduce duplication of rescue efforts. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is backing up which dataset from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-data-rescue-tracker/

#video #VideoEditing #ContentRemoval #wow

'Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.'

https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/tu-graz-news/singleview/article/diminished-reality-team-der-tu-graz-laesst-objekte-in-echtzeit-verschwinden

#Mississippi #legal #research #ContentRemoval

'A state commission scrubbed academic research from a database used by Mississippi libraries and public schools — a move made to comply with recent state laws changing what content can be offered in libraries. The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a March 31 internal memo obtained by Mississippi Today shows. '

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/mississippi-libraries-ordered-to-delete-academic-research-in-response-to-state-laws/

Axios: NOAA research websites slated to go dark get a reprieve.”NOAA has averted the early cancellation of an Amazon Web Services contract that would have caused a slew of agency websites to go dark beginning at midnight, the agency said Friday. Why it matters: The outages mainly would have affected NOAA’s research division, and would have made numerous websites and data sets inaccessible to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/axios-noaa-research-websites-slated-to-go-dark-get-a-reprieve/

Stars and Stripes: DOD webpages celebrating legendary minority troops to be restored after being scrubbed from sites. “Webpages detailing the history of legendary minority service members will be restored to the Defense Department’s online platforms after the content was pulled following an agency-wide examination of material for diversity, equity and inclusion, the Pentagon said […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/stars-and-stripes-dod-webpages-celebrating-legendary-minority-troops-to-be-restored-after-being-scrubbed-from-sites/

NiemanLab: The New York Times picks up the shuttered FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracking database. “When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site’s publicly available polling databases — like a presidential approval rating tracker — shut down, too. … Luckily, the data has been saved: The New York Times is picking up where FiveThirtyEight left off…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/niemanlab-the-new-york-times-picks-up-the-shuttered-fivethirtyeights-poll-tracking-database/

Task & Purpose: Medal of Honor recipient depicted in movie ‘Glory’ erased from Pentagon website. “A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil War battle retold as the finale of the 1989 movie ‘Glory’ has been scrubbed from a Pentagon website, with an article on the soldier labeled as ‘DEI’ in the now-broken web link.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/task-purpose-medal-of-honor-recipient-depicted-in-movie-glory-erased-from-pentagon-website/

Ars Technica: Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history . “Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced Wednesday that it will be imposing a 100-hour limit on the archived video highlights users can preserve permanently on the site. And while Twitch says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/21/ars-technica-twitchs-new-storage-limits-will-purge-huge-swaths-of-internet-gaming-history/

The Conversation: Do big tech companies have a ‘duty of care’ for users? A new report says they do – but leaves out key details. “Large social media companies should have to proactively remove harmful content from their platforms, undergo regular “risk assessments” and face hefty fines if they don’t comply, according to an independent review of online safety laws in Australia.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/16/the-conversation-do-big-tech-companies-have-a-duty-of-care-for-users-a-new-report-says-they-do-but-leaves-out-key-details/

All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive https://eotarchive.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Term_Web_Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/

National Archives blog post: https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2024/06/24/announcing-the-2024-end-of-term-web-archive-initiative

Library of Congress blog post: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/07/nominations-sought-for-the-2024-2025-u-s-federal-government-domain-end-of-term-web-archive/

GitHub: https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2024
Internet Archive collection page: https://archive.org/details/EndofTermWebCrawls

404 Media: Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov. “As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on data.gov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the deletions happened immediately after Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the website saved […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/02/404-media-archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

Disney’s Financial Magic

https://www.levernews.com/disneys-financial-magic/

The Walt Disney Company is removing TV shows and movies from its streaming platforms and then claiming massive losses and potential tax write offs.

Disney is essentially saying that it's removing content from its platforms because it's not worth the cost while simultaneously saying that the content it has removed amounts to about $1.5 billion in losses.