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Kind of shoots down your pirate idea

I've been to Somalia, was pretty shit, would not recomend

Or burn it down

It's up to all you kids to fix it

so idk, America's a mess right now

But then again whistleblowers are important

Leaks in general annoy me, because often it feels like they're just trying to feel important or impress people with what they know

I mostly just dislike articles like this, which are not addressing the root cause of why something is being changed, and focusing too much on what is changing

Though I think your view is just a bit more pure than mine is, I like transparency too

I think we disagree on the transparency thing

I mean, you're welcome to

I do, I'll drink enough for both of us Black Mage

I think it is good natured

Got to remember I can't do shit

lol, I'll keep that in mind

Not doubting that in the least

I whatever circles you're in, sure

It's a trendy issue on the internet, that's it

Nobody, N O B O D Y gives a shit about net neutrality

It's why the story is being written on these 7 words specifically

Public opinion matters on issues people care about

lol, that's a whole different issue entirely

That's the point though, the CDC should not be answering to public opinion on every decision they make

etc.

The goal is for the expense report to look like ---Research expense 000F1 ---Research expense 000F2 ---Research expense 000F3 ---Project expense 000G1

The goal is, when the CDC wants to do research on ---Fetus developemental studies They don't want every pro/anti abortion group weighing in and blowing their $10k research expense out of the water They don't need it to become an issue they have to spend weeks explaining to the press and their chain of command

Why do you seem to think this is sinister in some way

"innocuous goal"

That's how it's done though

That's the policy

Federal expense documents are going to henceforth be streamlined and standardized across agencies

As fed to them by a source within the CDC

They're writing a story about 7 "controversial" words that will no loger appear on expense reports

The post isn't writing a story about the policy shift, because nobody would care

That's a nice way of saying leaked

Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget

These were leaked to cause a fuss

I'm sure the actual lists of words/phrases they're tryign to filter out are 100x as long

Feds are tired of people raising a fuss over the language on these reports

Lest ever bit of expenditure get scrutinized.

No they don't. This is a push to remove details from expense reports

The public should literally never be scrutinizing line items

To expediate the process of accounting these expenditures

It's banning terms to be used on government budget reports

Just like in your Windows task manager, you have 10+ svc host processes

It'll go in as a line-item expenditure that matches another 100

Nobody will notice

And almost always, the shit that gets raised around small sums of money being spent on these things is always disproportionate

Non-politicizing budget line-items leads to less scrutiny

I read that as being a good thing