Government website offering reproductive health information goes offline
The site was launched in 2022 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a public awareness campaign.
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While this isn’t really the part of it that matters, in all likelihood that site was designed and created by a federal contractor, who probably billed tens of thousands of dollars (probably more) to build it, and most likely continued billing to keep it maintained. He’s just throwing our tax dollars in the trash.
I’m going to need you to provide some citations for those assertions, along with an explanation for how that’s even relevant —!or is that what you mean by “this isn’t really the part of it that matters?”
I'll elaborate. Clearly the part of the story that matters is that an important resource providing information on reproductive health was taken down for what seems like absurd and petty partisanship. Nonchalantly discarding resources that were built with our taxpayer dollars bugs the shit out of me, especially when it's such critical information for a government to provide.
I was just pointing out that a huge chunk of government work like designing, building, and maintaining websites for all the agencies, programs, departments, etc. is done by federal contractors, whose contracts are funded with our taxpayer dollars. And by taking down the website like it's nothing, the administration is just tossing our money down the drain.
These things are also expensive as all hell, way way too expensive, but that's a different problem.
They're way too expensive, because not only you need a bunch of expensive certifications to become a contractor, but also win the contract, which often requires a CEO being golf-buddies with some government representative, which reduces competition and allows for increased profit margins... then the list of requirements turns out to be some "made by committee" list of features that take a whole team to even parse through, half of them being unrealistic or barely so.
