r/technology • u/Choobeen • 9h ago

Software Trump appoints Airbnb co-founder to revamp public (government) websites

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-appoints-airbnb-co-founder-to-revamp-public-websites-after-musk-doge-exit/a-73744139
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u/zaskar 9h ago

Wait until they learn about section 508. They will call it DEI.

The government had an amazing digital services agency, 18F and doge burned it to the ground because they were in palitir’s way all the time.

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u/dbbk 9h ago

I was gonna say, isn’t this just… the US Digital Service? Which DOGE replaced?

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u/gizamo 8h ago

They didn't really replace it. They just gutted it, shit all over it, and moved on to the next thing they could screw up.

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u/KnowMatter 20m ago

They used USDS to illegally circumvent the rules around creating new departments.

U.S. Digital Services had fuck all to do with the sorts of stuff DOGE was doing - they mostly just maintained federal web sites - but they took a vaguely IT based department and renamed it and gave a massively different mission statement to illegally create a new department without approval from congress.

It’s just another of the ways Trump has massively inflated the power of the executive at the expense of the other branches - it would be a massive scandal if anyone but Trump did it.

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u/raymonst 8h ago

it absolutely is. just nonsensical tbh.