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I don't get why they can't add a regex to ok *.gov$ websites. > Nevertheless, the level of carelessness upon which this mechanism seems to have been built upon
by 908B64B197 5y ago
I don't get why they can't add a regex to ok *.gov$ websites.
> Nevertheless, the level of carelessness upon which this mechanism seems to have been built upon is an embarrassment.
Same mechanism would flag and ban folks who argued that the lab leak hypothesis was a possibility and was worth investigating... Interesting how the media changed their narrative on this one.
- ALittleLight 5y agoMySpamSite.com?queryParm=.gov
- orheep 5y agoOn the domain only.
- colejohnson66 5y agoI'm sure the check (if implemented) wouldn't be a naive regex that would fail that easily
- ALittleLight 5y agoThe example regex would fail on that url. More generally I was trying to suggest with an example that filtering credible information with a regex is error prone.
- l33t2328 5y agoYes, and the example was naive. It’s trivial to make regex identify TLDs.
- ALittleLight 5y agoYeah, but that doesn't work either. There are gov sites that have incorrect information, out of date information, partisan ideas and rhetoric, or there may exist, now or in the future, a .gov website where people could upload and share content.
- afavour 5y agoIf you were going to check for this and didn’t immediately reach for location.host rather than location.href then it might be time to read some API docs.
- jdavis703 5y agoAre we sure government websites won’t contain misinformation? For example, senior government leadership was advising the consumption of bleach as a COVID-19 cure.
- crocodiletears 5y agoIirc, he was asking a CDC official whether the application of a disinfectant to infected lungs had been investigated. A stupid idea on its face, but at no point did he recommend the consumption of bleach as a cure or a treatment for covid.
- jussij 5y agoWhile he did recommend taking hydroxychloroquine as a cure, recommended the end of lock downs and actively rejected the use of masks.
- l-_l-_l-_lo_ol 5y agoHe didn't recommend hydroxy as a cure. He was advocating studies at the time that were supportive of its preventative effectiveness. As those weren't enough to justify using it the left media jumped on it with extreme hyberbole and you bought it with your lack of skepticism I assume. States that have ended lockdowns early, like Florida, haven't done any worse than locked states and saved their economies. Lockdowns are unproven as effective. Trump did not "actively" reject use of masks; he simply didn't fervently promote them as the left wished. And for that matter, Texas ended masks very early to the seething disdain of the left and then nothing happened. So...
- asdfaoeu 5y agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/trump-says-he-takes-hydroxychloroquine-to-prevent-coronavirus-infection.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/trump-says-he-takes-hydroxyc...
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- basementcat 5y agoDems.gov GOP.gov
- ceejayoz 5y agoYup. Plus, every Representative and Senator has the ability to blog on their personal house.gov / senate.gov subdomain. Sometimes they're doozies.
- basementcat 5y agoI think faction or party related content should be hosted on a .com or .org TLD while official policy organs may be hosted on .gov or .mil TLD
- ceejayoz 5y agoYeah. GOP.gov and Dems.gov makes me twitch. I get that we're a de-facto two party state, but yikes.
- wellbehaved 5y agoSuch a sad commentary that you so blithely assume that if it's on a government website then it's not misinformation. Across the ages, governments have been the most heinous purveyors of misinformation, and are the biggest misinformation threats to humanity. Ergo the 1st Amendment.
- gccs 5y ago1.USA.gov used to be a blind bitly redirect service. It would redirect any bitly URL. Example: 1.usa.gov/abc would redirct to the same place as bit.ly/abc With no authorization or whitelist or anything.
- account42 5y agoThat seems to be a severe issue with usa.gov which should be fixed there (and I assume it has been), not something others should work around.