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Inside the Struggle to Preserve the World's Data When masked gunmen smashed their way into the offices of the Crimean Centre for Investigative Journalism, the staff knew what was coming. For years, the centre had been a lone crusading voice exposing deep-rooted corruption in Ukrainian government circles, defying threats of violence and attempts to close it down. Now it was payback time as the thugs trashed the premises, seizing computers, hard drives and confidential files. Their objective was clear: erase the centre?s ?institutional memory? by taking its website, containing some 16,000 pages of dedicated investigative reporting, off the internet for good. http://bit.ly/1zDes1D Source: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/06/27/inside-struggle-preserve-worlds-data-261636.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1zDes1D+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra