@gerrymcgovern It's even worse than this suggests —...

@gerrymcgovern It's even worse than this suggests — rather than the Oregonian suing for access, the city of The Dalles actually *sued The Oregonian* in a "reverse public records lawsuit" to prevent the paper from disclosing the data, despite their county District Attorney having already ruled that the information should be disclosed.

Google funded the suit until the press got too bad and then pulled out, so the city settled.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-dalles-city-sues-local-paper-to-keep-googles-data-center-water-use-a-secret/

https://www.rcfp.org/dalles-google-oregonian-settlement/

Like 15 April at 20:03 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to

3 comments

Erin Kissane

@gerrymcgovern (I live in Oregon and watch the big public records cases fairly closely and this was such a clusterfuck.)

15 April at 20:04 | Open on mas.to

Mark Taylor

@kissane @gerrymcgovern Ah, so that's how you organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

13 May at 6:59 | Open on social.markiswrit.ing

Gerry McGovern

@kissane
Wow, I actually didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out. It's just so terrible.

13 May at 12:05 | Open on mastodon.green