Disappearing data and need for censorship-resistant networks

Publicly funded data on U.S. federal government websites is disappearing, with noticeable changes first starting in mid-January after the change in administration, according to a Wired story. The article cites 404 Media reporting that the datasets no longer accessible through data.gov come disproportionately from the Department of Energy, NOAA, the Department of the Interior, NASA, and the EPA, though it notes that data.gov is an aggregator and determining what is actually gone is a manual task. The author argues that durable, censorship-resistant networks are needed, pointing to the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's preservation work as an example.