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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 2 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.612s | source
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tomohawk ◴[01 Feb 25 14:20 UTC] No.42898468[source]▶
It's too early to tell, but I would not be surprised if later at least a portion of this is found to be "malicious compliance".

For example, President Truman ordered the US military to be (re)integrated. Through malicious compliance, racist officers put their own spin on the orders.

"Well, he didn't say that black officers would get equal access to the officers club, so we won't let them in."

It too a former 5 star general (President Eisenhower) to stamp out the malicious compliance and make it stick.

There was already a case of malicious compliance with the DEI EO on the part of certain US air force personnel taking down material about the Tuskugee Airmen. The new sec def stomped that out within 4 hours.

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1. bongodongobob ◴[01 Feb 25 14:31 UTC] No.42898557[source]▶
What? This isn't malicious compliance. This is exactly what Republicans said they were going to do. Destroy everything that doesn't agree with them.
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2. refurb ◴[02 Feb 25 04:14 UTC] No.42905755[source]▶
No, it's malicious complaince.

You can read the EO here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defe...

Beyond a few specific documents, nothing in there requires the CDC to pull down all this data immediately. There is even a section about "progress updates by 120 days".

The CDC is still run by the same people as under Biden. They are the ones that immediately pulled down the data, not Trump hires.