I was surprised at how many posts which had good, useful data have been deleted, particularly a lot of Cuba/terrorism articles. The "Gay Wars" seem to have taken a lot of hits, too. I know there are problems on any board with provocatuers and trolls hijacking threads, but a lot of information was lost, too.
Americans need more information, not less- we are going to see a real flare-up in the Carribean/Latin America axis, and in Africa... and the Middle East, and we need to stay up to speed on these areas.