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0 pointscowpig1y ago0 comments

> DOGE makes recommendations to the president, who has the final decision making authority.

It's clearly being run by Elon Musk, but he has not been nominated or confirmed for any official position.

DOGE appears to have unprecedented access to systems that usually have safeguards in place. What do you think people should do in this situation if they are concerned about abuse of power?

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imgabe1y ago

DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that.

They have read-only access to systems and the “abuses” seem to be publicly posting what the government is spending money on.

Why do you think it’s a problem for the public to know where the government spends money?

moolcool1y ago

Government spending is mostly already public information. Ironically, it's DOGE itself which is trying it's best to act in secrecy.

imgabe1y ago

If they are cloaked in secrecy how do you know what you’re even mad about? The people who are tweeting everything they do are acting in secret?

If all they are doing is posting information that was already public then what exactly is your problem?

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amazingamazing1y ago

The details of said spending is very much not public, and even if it was (it’s not) - it’s not accessible. If it's not true, would love to see links where I can see everything easily.

cowpigOP1y ago

> DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that.

OK I actually know what this is and no, it's absolutely nothing like the USDS, which builds tools to support government processes. What has DOGE built?

> Why do you think it’s a problem for the public to know where the government spends money?

I would very much like to see transparency, and if that were what DOGE was doing it would be great. But it looks to me like they're operating in secrecy and firing huge numbers of people before publishing any kind of analysis or study, without even providing reasoning for what they're doing.

moolcool1y ago

> What has DOGE built?

They built a portal to look at government spending, which is both worse than the existing visualizations, and did not put authentication in front of it's database. https://www.theverge.com/news/612865/doge-government-website...

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imgabe1y ago

DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that.

They have read-only access to systems and the “abuses” seem to be publicly posting what the government is spending money on.

Why do you think it’s a problem for the public to know where the government spends money?

moolcool1y ago

Government spending is mostly already public information. Ironically, it's DOGE itself which is trying it's best to act in secrecy.

imgabe1y ago

If they are cloaked in secrecy how do you know what you’re even mad about? The people who are tweeting everything they do are acting in secret?

If all they are doing is posting information that was already public then what exactly is your problem?

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amazingamazing1y ago

The details of said spending is very much not public, and even if it was (it’s not) - it’s not accessible. If it's not true, would love to see links where I can see everything easily.

cowpigOP1y ago

> DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that.

OK I actually know what this is and no, it's absolutely nothing like the USDS, which builds tools to support government processes. What has DOGE built?

> Why do you think it’s a problem for the public to know where the government spends money?

moolcool1y ago

> What has DOGE built?

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