National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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A couple of things I tried… Please validate to tell me I’m not crazy. Searches done on www.nih.gov (linked in post).

These are blocked:

  • “diversity”
  • "diversity "
  • “equity”
  • “inclusion”
  • “DEI”

These are not blocked:

  • “diverse”
  • “diversit”
  • “diversity*”, “inclusion*”, “equity*”
  • “diversitya”
  • “equity and diversity”
  • “diversity and equity”
  • “diversity equity inclusion”

What is the meaning of this

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Whoa, what the actual fuck. They are 100% doing that by choice.

    For example, this comes up on duckduckgo search:

    And clicking on that link suddenly gives this, as if it never existed:

    To make sure this wasn’t just old search data, I went to the internet archive.

    As of Jan 20th (the last archived copy), that About page was still up. So, it got taken down in the last few days.

    You can say that’s a coincidence, but good luck trying to explain that among 100 other things that Nazis did these past few days.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I guess they were asked to remove any reference to DEI from the website, and instead of updating millions of documents, they just blocked it from search.

      • canihasaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        They weren’t asked, they were mandated to do so directly by executive order. I get the desire to not comply, here, but if I’m NIH, I’m probably thinking that complying to keep the doors open for four years will do a hell of a lot more for the country than if they refuse and Trump totally dismantles their entire architecture with enough time that it’s difficult to reinstitute when he’s gone.

    • zlatiah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Yeah no joke. The biomedical community is probably in collective ourage now, since NIH straight up cancelled most grant reviews and all types of outreach… which is unprecedented

      The official NIH website banning specific words is just… cherry on the cake, I suppose. Hence only mildly infuriating

      spoiler

      I swear goodness this gives me way too much of the great China firewall vibe…

  • Limonene@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Yeah, the search terms seem to have an HTTP 302 redirect to the domain’s home page.

    Searching for “diversityy” shows unredacted results for the word “diversity” as if it had automatically corrected the spelling, bolding the corrected search term.