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Similar to when they removed the accessibility guidelines for government websites in the anti-DEI crusade there, they now direct banning grants that include the
by freehorse 2y ago
Similar to when they removed the accessibility guidelines for government websites in the anti-DEI crusade there, they now direct banning grants that include the word "diverse" as in "transdisciplinary", and probably quite a few more that offer any faint hint of what could be DEI.
This is a common pattern in general in authoritarian regimes: censors tend to be overzealous because the cost (to them) of false negatives (not banning sth that they should) is much higher than the cost of false positives (banning sth they should have not). The more people will be involved in this bureaucratic censorship assembly line the more strict the result will be.
- immibis 2y agoOther Hacker News commentators have sternly informed me this is not an authoritarian regime and I am just irrationally angry because my preferred candidate, equally good as all the others, didn't win.
- freehorse 2y agoOh, my sincerest apologies for the misunderstanding! Clearly, I must have been mistaken in thinking that any form of censorship or restriction on academic language could be seen as authoritarian. It's just my irrational anger speaking, obviously.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago[flagged]