'The Bigotry Is Astounding:' Engineers Waste Time and Money Scanning .Gov Sites for 'Transgender' and Other Terms
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is wasting workers’ time and taxpayer dollars on “a witch hunt to find any content deemed ‘bad,’” according to a source familiar with the work and internal communications viewed by 404 Media. Specifically, people who work on HHS websites are

Summary

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is diverting engineers from regular work to scan government websites for terms like “transgender,” “gay,” and “inclusion.”

This effort, reportedly linked to Trump’s executive orders against diversity initiatives, aims to catalog and potentially remove such content.

Critics argue it contradicts claims of government efficiency and wastes taxpayer money. Similar efforts are happening in other agencies.

A court order has temporarily halted removals, mandating the restoration of certain webpages to their previous versions.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Cute. But that’s not the circus. The circus is stuff like football games, celebrity gossip, and reality TV. It’s designed to entertain and distract while the world around you is on fire.