minus-squareHereFishyFishy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal DatabaseslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·3 months agoI’m a contractor for uscis. We were ordered to change all instances of the word ‘immigrant’ to ‘alien’. We said ok and shrugged because our systems actually use the word ‘person’. They didn’t say anything about that and we didn’t ask linkfedilink
minus-squareHereFishyFishy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater HarassmentlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoOmg this rings so true linkfedilink
I’m a contractor for uscis. We were ordered to change all instances of the word ‘immigrant’ to ‘alien’. We said ok and shrugged because our systems actually use the word ‘person’. They didn’t say anything about that and we didn’t ask