based on materials from the info site - By Cointelegraph
Let’s stop pretending that data simply disappears. It does not. It is deleted, erased, buried, and most often done so intentionally.
Every time a new administration takes power, priorities shift. This was to be expected, but the quiet, coordinated disappearance of public information is unacceptable. This can already be seen, especially in the United States, and at a pace that should alarm anyone who cares about the truth.
From public health information panels to economic indicators, entire datasets are removed from the web without a press release or explanation. They simply vanish. This is not cleanup or protection; historical revisionism occurs in real time.
The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer — a vast public registry of knowledge used for the common good — but that ideal has not become reality. Instead, it has turned into a digital mirage. Vast in appearance, but fragile in reality.
When websites disappear, archives close, or files are quietly removed... There is no librarian to consult, no phone number to call, and usually no explanations as to why. The centralization of information has become its greatest weakness — a system designed for convenience rather than permanence.
Let’s not sugarcoat it: this is dangerous. Power cannot be held accountable if there is no access to its actions, and as such, justice, politics, and reforms cannot be achieved if the data supporting them has already been deleted.
Facts do not expire, but in the current system, they can also have an expiration date.
Consider World War II and the Holocaust — horrors that unfolded in silence, and the gaps in evidence that allowed deniers to slip through the cracks. If tools available today — tools for recording, storing, and disseminating uncensored — had existed then, what could have changed?
Fast forward to 2021, when independent news agencies like Apple Daily were forced to shut down within hours in Hong Kong. A 26-year archive of journalism became inaccessible almost overnight as servers were shut down and digital records erased from public access. Hope was revived after cyber activists began creating backups of articles on the censorship-resistant permanent blockchain Arweave.
Fast forward to today's Spain, and we see the same issue years later. Internet providers block entire parts of the internet under pressure from corporate sports interests — no voices, no public discussions, just censorship wrapped in legal jargon.
Do not confuse silence with peace. Silence is control.
Erasure is no longer a crude act of destruction. It is a quiet, legal, bureaucratic process that has been refined over decades. While the threat to the preservation of public data is real, so too are the answers. Nonprofit initiatives like the Internet Archive have quietly created backups of billions of web pages for many years, effectively protecting against digital decay. These types of open-source archiving work independently of governments, as no administration should hold the keys to the public record.
Blockchain-based storage solutions also offer alternative storage solutions that are censorship-resistant and impervious to unauthorized access, unlike today’s dominant cloud providers that allow for and even take action to delete and manipulate data.
Every deleted article, every missing dataset, and every broken link is a chisel striking at the foundation of public reality. Without data, truth becomes subjective. When truth is subjective, power speaks last (and loudest).
The loss of information is a loss of history, and while solutions exist, they are not the purpose of this article. This is not an advertisement — it is a warning.
Preserving public data is no longer a technical issue — it is a civic duty. Not everyone can craft laws or lead protest movements, but everyone can save a copy. For every archive and every witness, there is the protection of truth, not just for what is happening, but, most importantly, for what has happened.
George Orwell wrote: 'It is a beautiful thing — the destruction of words.' It was fiction, but today it is a strategy, because the future is not built on dreams — it is built on records.
When public memory is housed in systems that can be edited, bought, or deleted, what remains is not history, but a version of history created by the last person in power. This is the real danger. Not disinformation, but 'non'-information: the void where only a blank page remains — where accountability should exist.
The choice ahead is simple: allow deletions to continue or fight for permanence and truth.
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