Precedent Trump Issues Executive Order Shutting Down Archive.org

[MineralMan]

President Donald Trump today issued an Executive Order that will rid the world of archive.org, that repository of everything that has been public on the Internet since shortly after its beginnings. In comments at the signing ceremony, he stated, "Nobody needs to go look at old stuff on the Internet. There's plenty to see that is current. Many people are embarrassed at things they put online, so why should those things be thrown in their face weeks or months later? We don't need this, so I'm shutting it down, believe me! About time, too."

Questions have already been raised regarding the First Amendment and about whether a President can actually legally engage in such censorship. Some are saying that Trump is just trying to hide the stupid things he has said, lies he has told, and promises he has made that he has no intention of keeping. President Trump dismissed this, as voiced by his press secretary, Sean Spicer, who said late this afternoon: "The President has nothing to hide. He's an open book. He says everything that comes into his mind immediately, as you all know. Why should everything he, or anyone else for that matter, has ever said live forever in some stupid archive? This is not about President Trump, so stop saying that. It's fake news! You media people should only be interested in what the President says next, not what he said at some time in the past. Give us a break, folks!"

[MineralMan]

1. Note: "Precedent" was intentional...

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Fucking awesome!

[KewlKat]

3. CAn he do that? I thought it was a 501(c)(3) non-profit library

[MineralMan]

5. He's the Precedent, after all.

I'm sure he can do anything. Or he's sure he can do anything. Or something like that. Otherwise, he'd be "Unprecedented."

[MontanaMama]

4. Can he do that?

I'm serious folks, can he DO THAT? W. T. F. ????? I'm more alarmed about this than anything having to do with Russia.

[MineralMan]

6. Seriously? No.

At least, I don't think so. The Donald, though, has extraordinary powers. He's just that amazing, don't you agree?

[MontanaMama]

24. You seriously gave me a panic attack.

I agree that he is amazing...at all things awful.

[Hortensis]

7. Didn't they set up a secondary library in Canada for this reason?

Of course if Rump continues it'll be fought in the courts, and this fascist impulse will be stomped on. 2018, here we come!

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Shh. Trump might shut off the Internet to Canada.

[Hortensis]

10. Lol. Actually, how could Rump do this? Archive.org is private,

not government. Are we talking about the same organization?

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Legally? I'm not sure if there are any laws anymore, at least ones that don't benefit Trump.

We're just having fun here with a MM satire post.

[Hortensis]

15. Sigh and lol. Not enough sport in making fools of conservatives?

[TheBlackAdder]

18. My company sends emails to employees to see if they can be fooled into clicking on fake links.

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Then, folks get spanked for being duped by them.

It trains everyone to suspect everything and not assume things are what they appear.

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[Hortensis]

22. Good for them. I don't have that backup. Last week I filled out a

"government" form that lacked the secure notation in the address as a first clue that something was very wrong. My husband and son got to spend hours cleaning that up. We hope.

Itm, I'm trying to train myself, without the slap (my guys are nice), into scrutinizing site info and URLs for deception.

[MineralMan]

9. Psst...

Satire. Don't let on, though...

[Hortensis]

11. You're bad! Apparently some vestigial conservative

impulse leaped to accept the worst and only after a while did this move on from my emotional center for rational analysis. Just hope the delay until "huh?" kicked in was due to slicing Andouille into a pot of beans. Not a multitasker these days.

[MineralMan]

14. Oooh...when's dinner?

I was supposed to have you at "Precedent"

[Hortensis]

17. EST here, so in about 4 hours. I do make good red beans and rice,

and you guys'd certainly be welcome any time.

[Kentonio]

12. You're talking about a guy who has already done and said far more crazy shit than this.

Don't freak us out like this please.

[MineralMan]

16. I cannot help myself. I beg your forgiveness.

Trump is a walking, breathing satire generator. A bottomless source of potential ridicule. A veritable artesian well of satirical possibilities.

I fear I cannot stop...

[Kentonio]

19. Most comedians have said its actually a terrible time for political comedy

There's very little room left for hyperbole and satire when real life events are wildly extreme and ridiculous already.

[MineralMan]

20. Well, I admit that it's easy to write something satirical that

is taken as truth these days. I may have to start being less subtle, I suppose.

[Kentonio]

23. Well its not really satire if what you say is actually completely believable.

To be funny it needs people to feel slightly silly afterwards for having fallen for the story.

[TheBlackAdder]

21. Trump saved Trevor Noah. Colbert's ratings are through the roof. Dennis Miller is probably pissed.

[Petrushka]

25. Good thing!

Nowadays, one can never be too sure.

[democratisphere]

26. And book burnings will be held sometime next week.

Unbelievable!

[dreamland]

27. The equivalent of a modern day paper shredder.

Let's put all those dumb statements through the shredder now! Still, I wonder if there is something on the internet that he is afraid of being exposed that we haven't found yet. I wouldn't put anything past these crooks.

[Princess Turandot]

28. And on a related precedential matter...

There's now actual precedent in several federal courts for the Wayback Machine's webpage copies being allowed into evidence. The US patent office also allows it to be used as evidence of, err, important patent stuff.

It's an outrage! Activist judges strike again!