U.S. government websites have gone dark as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders declaring his administration would recognize only two genders and ordering an end to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      4 months ago

      Already done.

      Social media is basically the internet for most of the population, and the biggest ones by far (Meta, Timtok) prostrated themselves.

      • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, but I mean things like fediverse banned, web archive and Wikipedia blocked, liberal news outlets blocked, etc.

        I give it another year or two, tops, but I feel like it’s coming.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          9·
          4 months ago

          You think anyone in the Trump administration knows about Lemmy. I feel like they hardly even knew about Twitter.

        • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
          English
          8·
          4 months ago

          I have a Facebook page where I posted lots of links to peertube videos. I get an error each time I post another peertube video and the thumbnails don’t show up anymore.

          They’re already banning fediverse content.

        • NaiaEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          They can try, but its hard to band stuff that’s decentralized like that. All they realistically could do is prevent companies and organizations based in the us from federating, or federating with anything outside.

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      last year when a number of states started to effectively ban adult content.

      -You could also argue it happened a lot sooner over a decade back when every high traffic website started transforming into a walled garden.

  • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    28·
    4 months ago

    Hiding info about Japanese interment camps

    Why would they need to do that hmmmmmnmmn

  • Myro@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    The sad part is, even if the next government is going to be more open-minded again, it is doubtful whether they’d want to spend the effort to reintroduce all of the content, solutions etc.