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.
Pretty sure they have announced they’re immediately destroying any semblance of anything DEI, so yeah
It’s on our internal searches as well. Some 404’s, some “due to executive order (whatever the fuck number) this page is no longer available” message.
My friend found/remembered an article from 2017, which is similar, but for the CDC. It doesn’t sound like it affected search though. http://archive.is/JLcc8
The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
I tried searching the terms above on NIH, and none of them, except diversity, take you back to the home page. CDC search seems unaffected currently.
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.
