'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.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis
    21•4 hours ago

    They don’t have to. Say no. Take it to court when they fire you for refusing to carry out duties that blatantly violate the first amendment.

    • @[email protected]English
      28•4 hours ago

      Or do a bad and/or slow job. Don’t write very good searches. Do fix a few pages manually and then stop because you think you’re done. Ask them to submit an issue first, and then put it in the queue with everything else. Go through a few rounds of reviews. Hold a task meeting and leave without it being clear who should work on it. Make sure all the correct paperwork has been filed. Have the legal department review the order. And then each of your proposed changes. Ask them for clarification on something each time.

      The famously slow and bureaucratic US government has been double-timing it and trying to proactively comply rather than letting the system drag all this down. Really any other response would be better than what we’ve been getting.

        • @[email protected]
          3•2 hours ago

          Hmmm… I’m good at writing regexes that look like they’ll work but don’t. But there’s a website that I can use to make a few adjustments to them and get them working. I suddenly forgot the URL… regex100.com or something like that? Oh well it looks like it’ll work, so it’s probably good enough…