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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

They always did

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's worth noting you're only allowed to insultingly say someone has a mental illness in relation to their gender or sexual orientation.

Do not post .... Insults, including those about: ... Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow 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.”

Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

Edit: and the changelog is a hoot.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 15 hours ago

So it's ok to say that zuckerfucker developed mental illnesses due to excessive zoophile orgies

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago

Fuck Mark Zuckerberg, evil motherfucker.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Rich men have a mental illness and are weird.

[–] 5paceThunder@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Soon as Trump gets elected, the disinformation campaign could resume.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Dana White is on the Meta board as happens to be the same time.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Wonder how much longer you'll be able to question the impact professional gambling has on the outcome of UFC matches.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess this is what fascists consider "freedom".

Personally I would rather escape wasting my life in servitude to capital.

[–] DegenerateSupreme@lemmy.zip -5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I feel conflicted. On one hand, people can regulate themselves, and Facebook becoming a bigoted cesspit may bring more people to a moderated Fediverse.

On the other hand, these major platforms having such user monopoly and influence can cause unfettered hate speech to breed violence.

I’m conflicted about the idea that an insidious for-profit megacorporation should be expected to uphold a moral responsibility to prevent violence; their failure to do so might be a necessary wake-up call that ultimately strips them of that problematic influence. Thoughts?

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Accelerationism is ultimately burning the vulnerable at the stake to try and send a smoke signal, so I think it's hard to say that this is a positive development. We can hope that there is a silver lining here where corporate social media self selects itself out of the general populations' lives, but I think we probably have to be realistic about the low probability of success here and the human cost that is incurred in the meantime

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

Too many people use meta's services.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Let's for a second assume it is a mental illness, how does that make the people feel who are experiencing it? Do they feel loved and understood? If you suffered from the same mental illness where the most effective treatment is tolerance and acceptance, how would you like to be treated?

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s America, love and understanding are not things we do here.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Let’s for a second assume it is a mental illness, how does that make the people feel who are experiencing it? Do they feel loved and understood?

"Hate the sin, love the sinner" has been the historical approach far-right evangelicals use to gull parents into conversation therapy for their kids.

Conservatives have adopted much of the same liberalish compassionate language up top and horrifyingly brutal physical, emotional, and sexual abuse on the back end for drug rehabilitation and prison reform.

The American idea of love and understanding is to brainwash them into compliance with social norms, while insisting the torture they're inflicting is a kindness.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

It should be noted that the framing of it as a sin was after the medical community accepted its not a mental illness. Before that it was "you're sick and need help".

“Hate the sin, love the sinner”

The problem is that people don't actually do the second, they replace "love" with "pity." Pity isn't love, it's intolerance. If you truly love someone, you won't care whether they sin or not, you'll just love them for who they are and want them to be the happiest they can be.

Whether homosexuality is a sin shouldn't be relevant at all, sin is between an individual and their god, especially in Christianity.

The problem is that people justify their intolerance by misinterpreting or misapplying phrases like these. They think things like conversion therapy is a demonstration of love, when in fact it's a demonstration of brutal intolerance.

The root of the problem here is intolerance, not the words we use to describe something.

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FB won't even do anything about the constant bombardment of scammer profiles that hit you if you post on any public group. They are always some attractive woman (stolen pics probably) with a profile that is a few months old and 1-2 posts at best. They always have the same message "I saw your profile pic! Friend me!" or some such crap.

[–] lepetichien@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck Meta and Zuck. I wish I could stop using WhatsApp, as every other Meta product is out of my devices already.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish our government actually regulated these corporations so they are not able to have a tentacle in so many essential technologies.

All of the symptoms of the crushing power of techbro oligarchs are directly tied to failures of govt to regulate.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 126 points 2 days ago (7 children)

greed is a mental illness.

billionaires are greedy.

the rich are a plague upon society and must be quarantined.

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[–] b1tstremist0@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

So what I see is, Meta first creates the problem of trans-metaverse by super aggressive inorganic promotion and then makes it even worse by cutting the expenses on such useless promotion. XD

L for all those who fell for it. Society eats you up (not sexually, keep your pants on) for getting mentally manipulated so easily.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mark was never a source of good in this world.

Never has been:

According to the text messages, Zuckerberg wrote, "Yeah, so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask me. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS."

In response, a friend inquired, "What? How did you manage to obtain all that?"

To which Zuckerberg callously replied, "People just submitted it. I don't know why they 'trust me.' Dumb f****."

[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 157 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My mom believes the bullshit about LGBTQ being a mental illness. Can't wait for it to get worse! Thanks Facebook!

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I find homophobia to be a mental illness. I mean it’s right there in the name.

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