Published on Nov 15, 2013
On this episode of Breaking the Set,
Abby Martin calls out British PM David Cameron's conservative party for
purging their website of over a decade of speeches and videos, and
remarks on the party also using sophisticated software to remove the
files from the internet archives that are used for posterity. Abby then
reports on major policy shifts within the Chinese government that are
resulting in a partial lifting of the country's long standing 'one-child
policy' as well as the dismantling of the decades long labor prison
camps for Chinese dissidents. Abby then speaks with Peter Joseph,
founder to the Zeitgeist Movement about the philosophy behind the
organization, the unsustainability of the current economic system and
the model proposed by the movement for a sustainable future that works
harmoniously with nature. BTS wraps up the show with a performance by
members of the musical collective 'Heartbeat', performing the songs
'Bukra fi Mish Mish' and 'The Wall' and discussing how the road to peace
between Israel and Palestine can be paved with music and unity. ...........
Mirror.co,uk
Tories try to delete internet history: Videos we'll never forget no matter how hard they try
The Tories have tried to delete a decade’s worth of Tory promises and policies from the internet, it was revealed today.
.....Even the PM’s promises of a new, clean, transparent politics is among the material the public can no longer access.
A Tory spokesman claimed that the party was just trying to be helpful.
“These changes allow people to quickly and easily access the most important information we provide - how we are clearing up Labour’s economic mess, taking the difficult decisions and standing up for hardworking people,” the spokesman said.
But Labour’s Sheila Gilmore said: “It will take more than David Cameron pressing ‘delete’ to make people forget about his broken promises and failure to stand up for anyone beyond a privileged few.”
VIDEOS THEY CAN’T DELETE.....
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Conservative party deletes archive of speeches from internet
Decade's worth of records is erased, including PM's speech praising internet for making more information available
A speech in which
David Cameron said the internet would help people hold politicians to
account was among those deleted. Photograph: Barcroft Media
The party has removed the archive from its public website, erasing records of speeches and press releases from 2000 until May 2010. The effect will be to remove any speeches and articles during the Tories' modernisation period, including its commitment to spend the same as a Labour government.
The Labour MP Sheila Gilmore accused the party of a cynical stunt, adding: "It will take more than David Cameron pressing delete to make people forget about his broken promises and failure to stand up for anyone beyond a privileged few."
In a remarkable step the party has also blocked access to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a US-based library that captures webpages for future generations, using a software robot that directs search engines not to access the pages.
The Tory plan to conceal the shifting strands of policy by previous leaders may not work. The British Library points out it has been archiving the party's website since 2004. Under a change in the copyright law, the library also downloaded 4.8m domains earlier this year – in effect, anything on the web with a .co.uk address – and says although the Conservative pages use a .com suffix they will be added to the store "as it is firmly within scope of the material we have a duty to archive". But the British Library archive will only be accessible from terminals in its building, raising questions over the Tory commitment to transparency.
Computer Weekly, which broke the story, pointed out that among the speeches removed were several where senior party members promised, if elected, to use the internet to make politicians accountable.
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