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Before this is flagged, I would appreciate it if someone could explain the benefit of removing educational videos and/or how it saves taxpayers money
by basementcat 2y ago
Before this is flagged, I would appreciate it if someone could explain the benefit of removing educational videos and/or how it saves taxpayers money
- reaperducer 2y ago[flagged]
- CharlesW 2y agoThis action seems consistent with the larger Trump admin strategy, whatever one's feelings about it. I was curious whether government YouTube channels were receiving the same kind of "archive team" response that governmental websites have been, and to get HN'ers thoughts on the practicality of mirroring that content in the fediverse.
- belter 2y ago"The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted" - https://www.theverge.com/policy/612933/cfpb-tech-team-gutted-trump-doge-elon-musk https://www.theverge.com/policy/612933/cfpb-tech-team-gutted...
- smcin 2y agoHow many videos were there, how many of them were archived, are they officially required to be archived? Per the article: - the CFPB YouTube page [https://www.youtube.com/@cfpbvideo https://www.youtube.com/@cfpbvideo], which has 15,000 subscribers and was created in 2011, has had every one of its videos removed as of Friday [Feb 14, 2025] - IA has archived 386 CFPB videos as of February 8th 2025: [https://web.archive.org/web/20250208003117/https://www.youtube.com/@cfpbvideo https://web.archive.org/web/20250208003117/https://www.youtu...]