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Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’ (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/news@lemmy.world

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Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.

In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”

In tandem with this announcement, the company made a number of updates across its Community Guidelines, an extensive set of rules that outline what kinds of content are prohibited on Meta’s platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. Some of the most striking changes were made to Meta’s “Hateful Conduct” policy, which covers discussions on immigration and gender.

In a notable shift, the company now says it allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird.’”

In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy.

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 130 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Reminder to get off Facebook and Instagram

This isn't the first time they've pulled stuff like this nor will it be the last

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Delete it

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Let’s be honest, they already allow rampant, dangerous misinformation, bullying, and hate speech. They’re just being a little more honest about it, now.

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[–] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 68 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fucking insanity, right wing popularism here we come.

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When you finish reading this comment, you will forget you were ever gay.

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The whole of American society is slowly shifting towards widespread acceptance of violence against queer people. Any notion that our society or culture has progressed in any way is fake. It's empty. The post Stonewall era of perceived progress is over. For many queer people, the approach of January 20th is a shadow encroaching on the light of lives we hoped to live. Fear is becoming very commonplace in our communities. There's no mistaking what the people in power plan to do to us. And every day, widespread society shows more and more that that's fine. Any debate that we deserve rights is over. We are a problem for those in power to choose how to get rid of. Our lives are completely at the whims of the state, a state now being handed over to a group of people who delight in our suffering. Who delight in the suffering of children.

I fully expect states like Florida to criminalize being queer as soon as Trump takes office. They will start to raid night clubs and arrest trans people under crossdressing laws and gay people under sodomy laws. Just like they did in the 60s. We will be forced into hiding. We will grow up never understanding who we are or that its okay for people like us to exist. A whole generation of queer children will die because of laws like this. Nothing has changed.

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[–] SS2k_2003@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

They already allowed it on Facebook, they just pretended they didn't while that kind of speech thrived on Facebook.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

So let's talk about Peter Thiel, right?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Soon the Metaverse will resemble a classic CoD lobby.

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