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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.