The Tory party in England is erasing all of their previous speeches from the internet

"The Conservative Party have attempted to delete all their speeches and press releases online from the past 10 years, including one in which David Cameron promises to use the Internet to make politicians 'more accountable'. The Tory party have deleted the backlog of speeches from the main website and the Internet Archive — which aims to make a permanent record of websites and their content — between 2000 and May 2010."

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/11/13/1734213/britains-conservatives-scrub-speeches-from-the-internet

Apparently if you buy a domain that was previously archived by the Internet Archive and change the robots.txt file to block archiving, the IA deletes all of the previous scans. Also apparently the Canadians under Harper are doing a similar thing. There are still archives if one knows where to look, but it will make fact-checking previous claims and promises more difficult.

How long until American politicians start practicing unspeaking?

Thank you, Rush

"The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito."
—Rush Limbaugh

My brain needed a firm twist today.