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The Ease of Historical Revision at Whitehouse.gov

Discussion in 'Alley of Lingering Sighs' started by Taluntain, Oct 29, 2004.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

    I thought some of you might appreciate this one. For the uninitiated, the robots.txt file at the root of a site is used to tell web crawlers (content gatherers for search engines) which areas of a site they can't crawl and save in their cache.

    If you scroll down the mile long list there, you'll see that the Bush administration has disallowed web crawlers from crawling pretty much every single web page put up during Bush's reign. Which basically means that, as there are no records of those pages in any of the search engines, that the Bush administration can edit all those pages to "correct" anything Bush ever said, or anything that's ever been written there, without there being any evidence anywhere that they did it.

    The truth is out there - but not at http://www.whitehouse.gov
     
    Taluntain, Oct 29, 2004
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  2. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    heh, not exactly unsurprising. History is written, and re-written, by the victor... cheater... whatever. :shake:
     
    Takara, Oct 29, 2004
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    Not just the victor or the cheater, the loser writes down whatever he wants as well, try to get your hands on an Iraqi history book and you'll learn that the mighty army of Iraq crushed the American aggressors in the first gulfwar. :D

    And don't tell me that you actually believe that the historical facts in your own history books are all correct ?
     
    Pac man, Oct 31, 2004
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  4. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Pac Man, if I did that, then I'd think Braveheart was a documentary. :rolleyes: If you want to get your facts straight, it's best to read several different sources, and piece it together yourself.
     
    Takara, Oct 31, 2004
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    History is nothing but fiction loosely based on real events.
     
    joacqin, Oct 31, 2004
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  6. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    You're more right than you know. Shakespaere wrote a satire about Richard III. Made him out to be an evil bugger, and embellished, added his own traits etc. Many years on, and people take Shakespeare's satirical work, as a historical document.

    This kind of thing happens a fair bit. All it takes is time, and any story, no matter how ridiculous it may sound, can become treated as fact.
     
    Takara, Oct 31, 2004
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    Ah, George Orwell...
     
    Falstaff, Nov 1, 2004
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