‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases

[greenfish@lemmy.world]

I'm a contractor for uscis. We were ordered to change all instances of the word 'immigrant' to 'alien'. We said ok and shrugged because our systems actually use the word 'person'. They didn't say anything about that and we didn't ask

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

I don't think I'm taking side in that text.

I do think you shouldn't make opinions of text you didn't understand.

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Nuh uhn! It's streamlining the woke removal with maximum efficiency^TM^

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

No they've already figured that out and I'm certainly not rich.

[jenesaisquoi@feddit.org]

It's called an euphemism treadmill

[cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works]

What would happen if someone began adding banned words to important parts of a database?

[keenflame@feddit.nu]

You are taking side in that text. I fully understand it, it's not as elegant and complex as you think. It's just evil.

[amon@lemmy.world]

#000000?

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Well, impossible to argue with such a claim, but if you really want for it to be something worth your own time, you can explain what side, in your opinion, I'm taking, when saying that there are two approaches at making a state structure support equality (something almost every ideology, even fascist, in some sense wants, they differ in the core criterion before which people must be equal), and while Musk&Trump&rest are claiming to be transitioning from one to another, they have no intention to finish it, so they are just breaking things.

Damn right it's neither elegant nor complex, it's actually so long because it's clumsy.

[amon@lemmy.world]

Imo the main branch should be called the trunk.