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Thursday, December 19, 2002

More on deletions from government web sites....In today's issue of Chris Sherman's SearchDay, Marylaine Block judiciously surveys the problem. Excerpt: "Now, it is possible to make an honorable case for many of these deletions of public information....The problem is that the previous presumption, that publicly-funded information is the rightful property of the public until proven otherwise, has been replaced by the presumption that the public has to prove to a suspicious government that it deserves the information." Quoting Gary Bass, of OMB Watch: "We are moving from a right to know to a need to know society."