[HN Gopher] The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Publishe...
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The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina
Khan's Tenure
Author : JKCalhoun
Score : 84 points
Date : 2025-10-20 13:38 UTC (9 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
| afn wrote:
| https://archive.ph/2025.10.20-102309/https://www.wired.com/s...
| JohnFen wrote:
| This kind of thing is happening across the government. I think
| it's become prudent to regard government information outlets as
| untrustworthy and to ignore them. They're stuffed with outright
| misinformation and/or have been memory-holing actual information.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| If you generalize this to "government" then you've let them
| win.
| JohnFen wrote:
| OK, federal government. Either way, I don't see how paying
| attention to the credibility of the various data and
| information sources is letting anybody "win". I'm just trying
| to ensure that I have the most accurate information possible.
| bitwize wrote:
| You're not thinking along the right axis. Government
| sources are fine if the government hasn't been compromised
| by a fascist coup.
| nomel wrote:
| History (including recent history) says the leanings of
| political party of the administration in charge are
| unrelated to how truthful the government communication
| is. _All_ politicians, and the groups they control
| /communicate with, can't be easily trusted, since all
| have very strong _personal and group_ motivations to
| deceive.
|
| Deception of the public is a bipartisan issue because
| it's an issue of _holding /maintaining power_.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _All politicians, and the groups they control
| /communicate with, can't be easily trusted_
|
| This is bullshit. The American bureaucracy has been
| ridiculously reliable as an information source until
| tight around now. (Same as the British imperial services'
| were.)
|
| This baseless cynicism is a driver around why we're
| losing that. (More specifically, the blog posts being
| disappeared aren't impartial data. They're the historic
| opinions of the previous FTC chair.)
| joshstrange wrote:
| > Deception of the public is a bipartisan issue because
| it's an issue of holding/maintaining power.
|
| And maybe it's because by and large Democrats are
| completely incompetent when it comes to
| holding/maintaining power but I cannot remember a time
| when Democrats were purging information from government
| websites like we are currently seeing. Saying it's a
| "bipartisan issue" does not hold water. I'm sure there
| are instances where Democrats have done something like
| this (I should make it clear I am not a fan of them, I
| just find them the lesser of two evils) but nothing on
| the scale we are currently seeing.
| Gud wrote:
| This can't be generalized beyond the US government,
| though. I live in Switzerland and have a lot of faith in
| the Swiss government.
| ImPostingOnHN wrote:
| _> History (including recent history) says the leanings
| of political party of the administration in charge are
| unrelated to how truthful the government communication
| is._
|
| If anything, recent history says the exact opposite:
| truthfulness has absolutely varied historically based on
| the person in charge. The current person in charge has a
| record of untruthfulness unrivaled in magnitude by any of
| his historical predecessors. It isn't even close.
| wredcoll wrote:
| Everyone else has already jumped on this post but I
| cannot stress enough how toxic the mentality "everyone
| does it" is.
|
| Not everyone does it, and people certainly don't do it to
| the same degree, and when we vote we can actually choose
| better people. Not perfect. Just better.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| There's never been a stupider time to believe this. You
| people will go whoever the Overton window drags you. It's
| like extremist centrism.
| wredcoll wrote:
| Because we have elections that affect the government. Very
| broadly speaking, we do that by electing republicans or
| democrats. Republicans consistently do things like censor
| government agencies and attempt to alter history. Democrats
| do not.
|
| Blaming "the government" becomes a way to shield criticism
| of the actual people doing it which means people are ever
| so slightly less likely to take appropriate corrective
| actions.
|
| (Saying republicans instead of specific republicans is a
| bit the same, but there's a certain freedom of association
| there, if you're currently a republican it means that all
| of these republican actions are, at minimum, acceptable to
| you)
| nine_zeros wrote:
| This is not a government issue. It is a _Republican_ government
| issue.
|
| Democrat governments don't seem to purge information.
| Republicans are so infantile that they literally display a
| picture of an Autopen instead of Biden as President in the
| historical presidents wall.
|
| Republicans are so infantile as to want to erase the reality of
| slavery.
|
| Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase evolution
| from textbooks.
|
| Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase the Jan 6
| coup from memory.
|
| Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase real jobs
| data from BLS site.
|
| I could go on. But this is a Republican problem. No both-sides
| here.
| xrd wrote:
| I've neglected paying for Wired, even though they are doing
| incredible reporting work. I finally clicked on the link today,
| and it is only $24 for a year with a 30 day free trial. That's a
| great value and I'm proud to support them. Please consider doing
| that as well.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Dunno if I need the whole 404media-esque ragebait article. Blog
| posts removed? Just give us the list of wayback links to them all
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20250701192515/https://www.ftc.g...
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20250713060942/https://www.ftc.g...
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20250713014422/https://www.ftc.g...
| infinitezest wrote:
| Dunno if the concern is that "you can't find a copy of the blog
| post" so much as "why is this admin removing this stuff and/or
| making it harder to find". This seems bad to me and I don't
| think their headline is wrong.
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