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Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE (apnews.com)
28 points by rdoherty 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”

“‘Move fast and break things’ may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that,” said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation.


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I haven't seen evidence that such "banning and censoring" ever happened to any meaningful degree.


I work at USDS (at least as of 11:49 AM - not fired yet!).

What on earth are you talking about? Ban and censor? Ban from what, and how? And censor? This is the government, not Facebook or Twitter/X etc.

This idea that the federal government is both incompetent and at the same time conspiratorial and all up in everyone’s business is nuts.


Thank you for your service!

How many from USDS are left after this group of resignations?


Cause Twitter never censors...


Twitter was not the government.


Twitter colluded with the government. This was the point.


When? The Twitter files were the most that Republicans could dredge up and that showed that Twitter was enforcing their terms of service and didn’t single out right-wing content for that.


Yup they are all performing for you unlike Trump and Musk.




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