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

[xenomor@lemmy.world]

Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?

[maeve@kbin.earth]

GitHub is owned by Microsoft.

[nuxcom_90percent@lemmy.zip]

This is being done by trump and musk.

Microsoft just own the company where this is being discussed because the people actually doing the work are treating it like any other software project.

[maeve@kbin.earth]

Are you excusing it?

[latenightnoir@lemmy.world]

This is why it's essential, now more than ever, to keep these words and notions alive, let the truth be an act of rebellion in itself.

Life is meaningless without diversity, and it is up to each and every one of us to protect it.

[nuxcom_90percent@lemmy.zip]

....

Excusing what? Someone called out the "free speech absolutist" hypocrisy. You assumed they were talking about Github or Microsoft for some reason. I corrected you.

Maybe learn how to contribute to a conversation?

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

Are you too stupid to understand the difference between hosting software and modifying it?

[maeve@kbin.earth]

And people discussing it are employed by musk?

[perogiboi@lemmy.ca]

Don’t feed the worthless troll.

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

I think you're missing something here.

GitHub isn't doing anything. It's just a repository where people can track changes that are happening by end users. The end users are using GitHub and are removing DEI stuff from their products at the direction of the US government (AKA. Musk and Trump).

Being angry at Microsoft is like being angry at a grocery store chain because you saw a kid being told by his grandpa to feed stale bread (from that grocery store) to some ducks.

[zerogravitas@lemm.ee]

Apparently the new slogan is "Vox Populi No DEI".

The content filtering approach to government, or, if you will, a filterocracy.

[tja@sh.itjust.works]

The people that are discussing it are exposing it and showing what is happening. And the tools provided by GitHub are helping.

So your original comment was celebrating Microsoft?

[nevemsenki@lemmy.world]

This level of pettiness could be funny if it wasn't in control of thr world's largest army and nuclear arsenal.

[maeve@kbin.earth]

Maybe, I'll reread, I've something to do shortly that will take most of my day but I'll come back tonight to this. Thank you

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

Does anyone have a list of words that the new administration is now allowing that the previous administration had blocked?

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

To add, GitHub is actually a great place to be making these changes, because with GitHub you retain history of the edits and prior versions. So after Trump changes his mind or loses power, the missing information can be brought back in fairly easily. Nothing is permanently lost.

[elros@lemmy.world]

Looking for an advanced copy of the Newspeak Dictionary?

[dudedudenson@lemmings.world]

It's not that unlike what companies were doing to appease the woke gods, a friend works at Salesforce and he had to change the name of a class called Blacklist to something else because apparently they're not allowed to use the word black in any context in the code

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

No, I'm curious to know which words or phrases the last administration wasn't allowing. My guess is that there isn't such a list.

[saleh@feddit.org]

I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.

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