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Of course there's a wikipedia page on it, it was huge and recent. There are also web pages on it, mostly on lawyer's personal websites, and articles about continued robosigning that reference it. It was a multibillion dollar scandal involving multiple banks and multiple court cases that stretched over the net decade.

I repeat, it's hard to find detailed information about a major historical event.

> I think you're confusing "very hard to find details" with "People Don't Agree With Me That This is Important".

Nothingburger, I guess.

> t's a technical and boring financial scandal which was mostly victimless at the level of individuals

Absolutely bonkers statement. Every robosigned document represented an individual whose house was in danger.

> It's just not surprising that this fades from public memory.

It is surprising that the hundreds of articles written about it at the time are gone, and we're getting history from law firm ads. Why is information available on the sites of law firms? Because this was a widespread fraud that affected individuals, and they needed lawyers.

> But that's on all of us, not the recordkeeping.

What?

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Edit: I'm talking about people working to get information removed from the internet, and you're talking about memory. Very few people remember this one woman being raped, so is it "on all of us" that the accused pulled a newspaper off the internet?

Additionally, the robosigning scandal disappearing is just an egregious example that I assumed everyone would be familiar with. There are any number of smaller profile financial scandals involving billions of dollars and huge institutions where the participants are still active in industry and public life. They're often completely obliterated from the web, and you can only find reference to the fallout on ancient sites that have been left on the internet due to neglect, filled with dead links that need to be fished from archive.org.

[rjzzleep]

It's interesting to go to any historical topic on Wikipedia that is related to Ukraine or Russia right now. There are thousands of edits since February on every single one of them. It doesn't matter if it's related to the situation at hand. Quite a few of them are rewriting history. It's so hard to find old information about this conflict even when you set the time frame from anywhere to 2020 a lot of recent stuff shows up on google and things I remember are drowned in a sea of noise. But besides the drowning even the same big reputable publications have revised their own coverage as of this year as if the past never existed. Here's an example:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/02/the-historian-whitewash...