No, it couldn't. Again, just erasing sections of laws from websites is not how it is done. It's dumb to conflate what authoritarian regimes do to memory hole historical events (which, to be clear, I think the current US administration has done or at least attempted to do) with just thinking "Yep, we'll just delete this law from the website and then we'll be good."
This was obviously a clerical/administrative screw up, if only because the consequences are so clearly benign.
Y'all act like the administration didn't rename the Gulf of Mexico like it changes the physical gulf or ownership status. Or direct museums about how to portray history. Or, historically, sharpie on a weather map. Removing or changing information as they find convenient is entirely reasonable to expect from the admin.
That said, they rolled it back, so likely someone effed up.
No, we aren't. Those are two different things - heck, I literally said "which, to be clear, I think the current US administration has done or at least attempted to do", and I was referring to specific instances of stuff like this, https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286299/nsa-museum-dei-....
My whole point is that raising your pitchforks over obvious clerical errors makes it that much harder to identify real attempts of deception. I think tptacek hit the nail on the head with his "I think you may be arguing with people who are disappointed that this is benign" comment.
The best advice I've ever heard, I'm going to proffer to you: remove the word "obvious" from your vocabulary.
I actually don't really care whether it's benign or not. Not everyone cares about this as much as you do. I just think soapbox warrioring needs to be addressed.
To accomplish that they demand 100 changes all over the place to official words/documents. Then on "the day" they command everyone to do all the changes.
This particular incident, is a mistake by some web admin, who forgot to hold off until "the day" it is all suppose to change
It is an accidental glimpse into what they are putting real effort into, its unbelievable what they are already getting away with and what will keep coming
This is just people wanting to be het up about something. How would this particular Constitutional heist even work?
Probably just another less-important thing tossed out there to keep the distraction index high.
For example from this Trump personal defense attorney → Deputy AG → freshly minted federal judge whose team "made a mistake" in allowing planes to take off despite court orders: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/emil-bov...
There's a reason authoritarian regimes are known for destroying and modifying records. It's because they often destroy and modify records.