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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

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763 points tartoran | 3 comments | 23 Oct 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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docdeek ◴[23 Oct 25 15:11 UTC] No.45682759[source]▶
This seems like a bad decision to me. Not only does it seem not to be in the spirit of the law (you can still report but not as easily now) but it's not clear why they shut it down at all. Cost? Inefficiency? Just wasn't getting used much? They have a better solution?

On the other hand, the US seems so partisan now that had the current administration told the world they were taking huma' rights abuse reporting seriously by creating a web form, some people would probably be criticized for that, too.

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1. giraffe_lady ◴[23 Oct 25 16:17 UTC] No.45683655[source]▶
Hegseth is publicly just a huge fan of war crimes and this is probably the main reason he got the job he has now. The big thing he's been signaling, and not really even in a sly or dogwhistly way, is that war crimes are ok to do now.

If your goal is to do war crimes and enable others to do war crimes then removing the war crime reporting tool may not directly benefit you much but it certainly doesn't hurt you. And there is a certain idealogical alignment.

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3. lawlessone ◴[23 Oct 25 17:14 UTC] No.45684329[source]▶
The most polite thing i can say about Pete is that he's the dimmest bulb among them, trying to imitate much more capable people. And everyone can see it.

He's broken the Peter Principle by shooting far above the level of his incompetence.