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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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I mean I guess algorithms are technology, but this really seems like it should be a submission in a US politics community.
At the very least include the US in the title so we know which government's policy is being criticised.
While I agree that many are too eager to put anything even tangentially related to tech in this community, this belongs. This is a piece of technology that is wildly relevant to this community and to a politics community. Sometimes they are inextricable. More and more these days whether we like it or not.
Is a debate about how the US government handles mental health problems amongst veterans really "wildly relevant" to the Technology community on Lemmy?
Idk, to me it seems like they're not actually that related at all, beyond them using a database to attempt to figure out who's more at risk.
Sorry Zek, when technology affects people's lives it's technology news. Especially when affects who lives and dies. Making tech treat people equally is only political if someone makes it that way.
Of course it's a political discussion. It's a discussion of whether the US government should have their system for triaging veteran mental health changed (if what this article states is true, then yeah maybe they should).
I'm not really sure why something being a matter of politics makes it a bad thing. Why frame something being political as a bad thing?
Tbh I don't know how you could frame this as not being a political discussion. The article is about the US government and bills being put to Congress.
Regardless, it's only tangentially related to technology, and only relevant to one country. That's my point.