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Donald Trump has adopted a peculiar and dangerous pattern in his second term, wrote Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Friday: moving to "delete" entire categories of people he doesn't like or want to acknowledge from federal data whenever possible.

"For example, when the Defense Department was asked to cull all DEI-related content from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images," they wrote. "A list of the deleted photos was given to the Associated Press. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities."

Almost half of the deleted images included racial minorities, the report found.

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[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is gonna impact voter registration, isn't it?

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't worry, he'll let you register again if you write a three page essay on what makes him amazing.

And that's only partially a joke.

[–] joekar1990@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Will it also need to include 5 things I did last week that were patriotic?

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think I just found the one ethical application of LLM AI

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You can also opt in to the genital screening and 3d scanning.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

He wants to delete them from more than just the government data.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

damn, he's doing a "right to be forgotten"? Epic.

DELETE ME PLZ!

If I get deleted from government databases, that’s fine. I grew up in the swamp and have camped in probably 90% of the national parks. I have different tackle boxes for different types of fishing. I’ll be alright. (I do still suck a fly fishing but it’s fun so I’ll figure it out.)

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He wants to make lists and gather data on undesirables one minute then delete it the next. Which is it, sir?

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 18 points 1 year ago

He wants to delete gov proof of legal citizenship of people he doesn’t like

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

He's not deleting the ICE databases of whom to kidnap and torture next, just the public-facing records of anyone existing that's not a cos-het-white-male.

[–] Pichu0102@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Making internal lists and data and eliminating public facing data aren't incompatible. In fact, they're horrifyingly compatible.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Put the two together. Deleting people's records makes them illegal. He now gets to deport illegals without oversight. The rest will be surveilled to keep them in line.

I don't really believe Trump has the wherewithal to even hold all this in his head at this point. It's the P2025 ghouls driving this and Trump just gave them all of his authority.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Yay, no more taxes!

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Didn't this happen in the Soviet Union?