The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan's Tenure

https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-removes-blog-posts-about-ai-authored-by-by-lina-khan/

by JKCalhoun • 9 months ago

119 49 9 months ago

afn• 9 months ago

https://archive.ph/2025.10.20-102309/https://www.wired.com/s...

JohnFen2• 9 months ago

This kind of thing is happening across the government. I think it's become prudent to regard government information outlets as untrustworthy and to ignore them. They're stuffed with outright misinformation and/or have been memory-holing actual information.

add-sub-mul-div2• 9 months ago

If you generalize this to "government" then you've let them win.

JohnFen2• 9 months ago

OK, federal government. Either way, I don't see how paying attention to the credibility of the various data and information sources is letting anybody "win". I'm just trying to ensure that I have the most accurate information possible.

nine_zeros9• 9 months ago

This is not a government issue. It is a Republican government issue.

Democrat governments don't seem to purge information. Republicans are so infantile that they literally display a picture of an Autopen instead of Biden as President in the historical presidents wall.

Republicans are so infantile as to want to erase the reality of slavery.

Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase evolution from textbooks.

Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase the Jan 6 coup from memory.

Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase real jobs data from BLS site.

I could go on. But this is a Republican problem. No both-sides here.

GaryBluto2• 9 months ago

No both-sides here. At risk of sounding rude, this entire comment sounds exactly like something you'd see on the top of r/all.

January 6 wasn't a coup, as (if I remember correctly) Joe Biden was president for 4 years. I actually welcome the new administration, as they do everything government has always done but are far too incompetent to divert attention away from it.

For a notable case of your holy, angelic Democrats doing something less than moral, here is a link about their pressuring of Google: https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5521897-google-admi...

wdr1• 9 months ago

Democrat governments don't seem to purge information.

This flies in the face of what we all lived through during the Biden administration.

All the major tech outlets[1, 2, 3] have come forward to say that Biden administration pressured them to remove content, including things like the negative impact on children of school closing during COVID.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-adm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files [3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-says-biden-admin-...

xrd• 9 months ago

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ChrisArchitect• 9 months ago

Dunno if I need the whole 404media-esque ragebait article. Blog posts removed? Just give us the list of wayback links to them all

https://web.archive.org/web/20250701192515/https://www.ftc.g...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250713060942/https://www.ftc.g...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250713014422/https://www.ftc.g...

infinitezest• 9 months ago

Dunno if the concern is that "you can't find a copy of the blog post" so much as "why is this admin removing this stuff and/or making it harder to find". This seems bad to me and I don't think their headline is wrong.

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan's Tenure

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