Web data on women deleted:
p2pnet.net News:- The US National Council for Research on Women says over the past few years, vital data has been deleted, buried, distorted, or has otherwise gone missing from government websites and publications.
In response, it’s published a documentary report called Missing and founded the Misinformation Clearinghouse, in effect a central, online repository to collect new information through a MisInformation Blog and Resource Exchange.
The NCRW also wants researchers and concerned citizens to send in the urls of web pages "where the good, accurate information about women and girls we need is now MISSING," as well as links to alternate websites where the information can be found.
"The information that is excluded in making societal choices is as important as the information that is included," says Martha Farnsworth Riche, former Director, US Census Bureau, in the forward to Missing.
"When information is excluded, whether deliberately or through indifference, policy choices are skewed at the expense of freedom and justice for all."
Missing says scientific data on the effectiveness of condoms in preventing AIDS has been called into question on government websites and abstinence touted instead.
"Front-line offices designed to assure that the concerns of women are addressed in policy development, such as the Office of Women’s Initiatives and Outreach in the White House, have disappeared.
"Chief actuary of the Medicare program Richard S. Foster was ordered not to provide requested information to Congress on the actual cost of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, while government-produced television ads have masqueraded as news reports about expanded Medicare coverage."
You can download a copy of Missing here.
April 29th, 2004 at 9:10 pm
“When information is excluded, whether deliberately or through indifference, policy choices are skewed at the expense of freedom and justice for all.”
She’s lucky she doesn’t have to deal with the RIAA and MPAA or not only would the info be missing but her basic civil rights as well.