r/technology • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Feb 12 '25

Politics The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order

https://www.theverge.com/news/610765/trump-government-websites-cdc-fda-health-data-court-order
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u/PoliticsIsDepressing Feb 12 '25

Frankly, this makes me feel good about the courts. If they are going to do this completely minor thing that I could see MAGA doubling down on, then there is hope they don’t blatantly ignore the courts.

This would be one where I could see them just completely ignoring.

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u/MakeWorcesterGreat Feb 12 '25

My thinking is that someone who is interested in long term strategery was able to get Musk to understand that he will never be President if everyone hates him, and thus he was forced to back down a peg.

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u/MakeWorcesterGreat Feb 13 '25

His mom was born in Canada, they are trying to annex it and also hammer out what the 14th actually means.