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
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.
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.
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.
That’s what I meant, it’s the closest they can get to complying without actually complying (not to mention, it’s not really possible to go through every document and redact it within the timeframe demanded).
Yeah, I understood. My reply wasn’t actually directed at you; sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to add that bit in case other readers didn’t know that this was more forceful than a request.
Pretty sure they have announced they’re immediately destroying any semblance of anything DEI, so yeah