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"they're not building a camp in Guantanamo, don't be ridiculous"
"they're not getting rid of gov workers en mass, don't be ridiculous"
"they're not going to blanket pardon January 6th rioters, don't be ridiculous"
"they're not going to deport international students who protested against Israel, don't be ridiculous"
"they're not going to deregulate industries and set us back decades in term of ecological progress, don't be ridiculous"
"they're not scrubbing open gov data, don't be ridiculous" < you are here
Indeed, it would be a shame to jump to conclusions, we have 0 hints of what's happening
Your guesses about me are hilariously wrong.
Ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42850668 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42850761, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42816654
So trim those excessive confidence levels, and consider what you might change to improve your process.
The other one does make sense to me though (but would be better in a different context) and echoes my own personal frustration with the "don't be ridiculous" dismissal of concern for things going on in the face of a blatant pattern (which perhaps you don't agree is a pattern with your implication that the higher things in that list haven't been dismissed as ridiculous then immediately happened).
Also from their own site at data.gov
> The United States Government’s open data site is designed to unleash the power of government open data to inform decisions by the public and policymakers, drive innovation and economic activity, achieve agency missions, and strengthen the foundation of an open and transparent government.
The part " to inform decisions by the public and policymakers" in particular stands out.
Anyway data sets is not exactly expensive to keep hosted for a government body so there's not really any excuse to scrub them unless they're polluted in some way ?
Data Sets can be alive, i.e. new data can be streamed into them, but they won't be purged, shortened or slimmed down.
You can expect more historical data to be opened as the digitization and organization continues, and don't expect this data to be randomly being removed from archives.
Even going one step further, if this data sets are refined and formatted, they are versioned, so you can always see the previous versions (e.g.: https://www.zenodo.org).
If you're starting to remove any data set from a data pool w/o any explanation and announcement, this means there's a new "Department of Truth" in the works, 99% of the time.