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All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders
- Havoc 2y agoOnward into the new dark age
- jaggederest 2y agoReminds me of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
- LargeWu 2y agoThis is what fascism looks like.
- pesus 2y agoThere is nothing good that come from this. We are headed for disaster, especially if bird flu or something else starts spreading quickly enough.
- readthenotes1 2y ago[flagged]
- Eduard 2y ago> It should be ok to post about that > "Data.CDC.gov is temporarily offline"
- sixothree 2y agoLike the tb outbreak happening now? The good thing is nobody will know it’s happening.
- jeffbee 2y agohttps://www.census.gov/ https://www.census.gov/ is also offline.
- cozzyd 2y agoIs the census data even available by other means nowadays? The census is a core constitutional requirement of the federal government.
- DeepYogurt 2y ago/r/DataHoarder/ is doing us all a solid
- borski 2y agoIs it? Seems up to me. [edit] Oh, I see, the actual 2020 census data is down: https://www.census.gov/2020results https://www.census.gov/2020results Says for maintenance.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoIt was down, but it is back now.
- cozzyd 2y agoDown for me...
- paphillips 2y agoThe main site was replaced with a mostly empty blank page earlier today. The bizarre thing was that the page source at that time had almost nothing except some odd javascript to build a "508 Daily Report" table of Jira tickets or some nonsense. That view appears to still be up here: https://www.census.gov/main/ https://www.census.gov/main/ I can't really blame someone for a bad deployment given the raging government dumpster fires at the moment.
- goosedragons 2y agoLots of links seem down for "maintenance". Not just the 2020 census.
- Eduard 2y ago
- Arubis 2y agoWhy does nobody refuse to follow these orders? They’re being issued by someone who flagrantly doesn’t follow the rules.
- aaomidi 2y agoThey’ll just be replaced with someone who does follow the order
- Arubis 2y agoMaybe. Maybe not. So call that bluff.
- aaomidi 2y agoIt is quite literally a legal risk to ignore these orders.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- Arubis 2y agoIndeed. The CDC’s data are funded by the public. An argument can be made that working for the public means ensuring the public has access to what they own.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- mahogany 2y agoIt’s illegal to defy the law here but “anti-democratic” is a huge stretch unless you know how “the public” feels on this specific issue. Clearly people voted for Trump for all sorts of reasons and do not wholly align on everything he campaigned for.
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- fergbrain 2y agoIs this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI think it’s pretty reasonable that it might take more than 2 days to review all CDC datasets for whether they “inculcate or promote gender ideology”. If the administration wanted to avoid interruptions in access they should have provided a longer timeline.
- systemstops 2y agoI think they should have been more specific with their wording of the order. It does not specifically say studies or datasets, but it doesn't make it clear that they should be excluded. The actual order: - Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology. - Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans that inculcate or promote gender ideology.
- stevenAthompson 2y agoThe order itself is poorly written, and was clearly drafted by someone who understands neither government process or the confusing reality of biological sex. For example, it seems not to acknowledge the factual biological reality of intersex people at all. Worse, It provides no clear definitions, funding, or means to enforce compliance. Just an unreasonable and vague demand, especially when applied to the work of scientists. It belies a middle school level understanding of the world we live in, and it's ridiculous demands should be met with only scorn and derision. This is not how functional grown ups behave, it's how angry children who believe that all complex problems have simple answers behave.
- BloodBox 2y ago[dead]
- johnthescott 2y agowhy would the whole site be taken offline?
- MysticOracle 2y agoLooks like /r/datahoarder was backing it up just in time: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iekywr/cdc_website_going_down_by_eod/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iekywr/cdc_we...
- grantmuller 2y agoLike a penetration test or a security test, you don't know where you're out of compliance until you perform an audit; you don't normally shut down your site in the meantime. The correct way to comply with this is to suggest that you don't believe that you're out of compliance, and to request specific guidance on which particular datasets aren't in compliance that should be removed.
- madmonk 2y agoI wrote a webapp to pull your local covid wastewater data from cdc data. It's still working, so they either left their feeds in place or haven't gotten to them yet. https://madmonk13.github.io/covid_ww_levels/ https://madmonk13.github.io/covid_ww_levels/
- tasuki 2y agoI read the beginning of the executive order: > Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers. This is wrong. This... isn't necessarily something I'd disagree with. This being the Trump administration, I suppose there might be some skeletons hiding later on in the text. They also talk about the distinction between "sex" and "gender". You're still free to choose any gender you like!
- tim333 2y agoIt does say "temporarily offline" while they adjust the transgender settings.