Entertainment
GOP-appointed judge agrees Trump’s removal of health websites threatens the public
A federal judge appointed by a Republican President has castigated Trump administration officials — and ordered them to immediately restore public health websites that they abruptly abruptly shut down.
The lawsuit against the website removal, brought by a group of physicians known as Doctors for America, concerns sites operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. Doctors for America says the scrubbing of the sites makes it more difficult for them to treat patients.
U.S. District Judge John Bates, appointed by George W Bush, agreed. He ordered the government to restore the pages by the end of the day of his ruling (Tuesday Feb. 11).
Mashable Top Stories
Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump’s inauguration. What’s going on?
The TL;DR of Bates’ ruling? It “was done without any public rationale, recourse or ability to challenge the decisions, despite laws and regulations that typically require them,” as Politico summarized.
Sites removed by Trump officials concern HIV care, plus information on contraception drugs and student health. In their lawsuit filed against the Office for Personnel Management, HHS, CDC, and the FDA, Doctors for America says the removal of websites offering them guidance on these subjects is creating confusion, which eats up time that is better spent treating patients.
Bookmark these abortion resources now
Justice Department attorneys defended the government’s decision to remove the sites, saying doctors could still access the information by using the Wayback Machine, which archives offline websites. But that didn’t fly with the judge.
“The Wayback Machine does not capture every webpage, and there is no information to suggest that is has archived each removed webpage,” Bates wrote. “Additionally, pages archived on the Wayback Machine do not appear on search engines. In other words, a particular archived webpage is only viewable to a provider if the provider knows that the Wayback Machine exists and had recorded the pre-removal URL of the requested webpage.”
-
Entertainment3 weeks ago
China’s DeepSeek AI might be smarter than OpenAI’s smartest AI
-
News2 weeks ago
DeepSeek AI gets hit with data privacy red flag by Italy and Ireland
-
Entertainment2 weeks ago
Here’s what DeepSeek AI does better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT
-
Games4 weeks ago
WoW Dragonflight Best Hunter Pets
-
Entertainment4 weeks ago
Nintendo Switch 2 reveal: When it might happen and what we know already
-
Entertainment4 weeks ago
Hinge launches AI-driven Prompt Feedback to help users write better profiles
-
Games4 weeks ago
How To Craft Gems In Dynasty Warriors: Origins
-
Entertainment3 weeks ago
Elon Musk and the Roman salute: What it is and why it doesn’t matter what you call it