Summary
Meta updated its hate speech guidelines to allow users to accuse LGBTQ individuals of being mentally ill based on their gender identity or sexual orientation, citing “political and religious discourse” and “non-serious usage” of such language.
The changes also remove bans on hate speech targeting protected classes, including race, gender, and disability.
LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD condemned the policy, accusing Meta of enabling anti-LGBTQ hate for profit.
These updates are part of broader moderation changes as Meta aligns itself with Donald Trump’s administration.
“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,’” the revised company guidelines read.
Abhorrent. Immoral. Evil.
These are the “insults” that I’d prefer to use to describe Facebook. This is the direction of the US. This is what people want. They want to be able to label people like me as “mentally ill”.
Fuck Facebook. I hope Zuckerberg gets his [not going to get banned for promoting violence, but what about the implication?]
“Transgenderism” immediately has me like
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Also, “non-serious usage of words like weird” means using it seriously against politicians could be rule violating, while calling someone mentally ill for being gay wouldn’t. 🙃
“Transgenderism” immediately has me like
Yup, sure does. The biggest social network is now a safe haven for hate speech.
Tying it to “weird” after that went viral during Harris/Walz’s campaign seems telling.
It takes a little bit of inference, but I think it outs the writer of this policy as having the average conservative persecution complex, with the average conservative lack of awareness of proportionality.
Smacks of, “Oh, so you liberals can call us weird, but we can’t call you ‘mentally ill’ and make concerted campaigns to drive you to suicide? We only do that because you attack us for wanting to focus policy on what genitals are in school childrens’ pants, we’re the victims here!”
So can I say explicit things about CEOs?
Yes. When were you ever stopped from doing that? For instance, just recently it was in the headlines that some Finnish bloke told Elon Musk off in X, and he definitely it noticed because he answered “f u retard”.
No. You’ll be called a terrorist if you do that. They’re a protected group don’t you know?
FB is going to die eventually. This expedites it. Its audience is aging, not getting younger. Add hate speech, and you’ll just drive people off it further.
I use FB for my birthday and connecting with family. I can find other platforms. Thanks.
Gross, corporate social media platforms have been circling the nazi bar drain for a while, it’s just becoming explicit now.
Motherfuckah, I’m ill, not sick.
Ah so accuse politicians and CEOs of being transgender. They’ll soon reverse it
Why do you think they would care about that?
Ngl did not except a social media platform to do this
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Americans and this stupid broad “freedom of speech” nonsense.
You should not be able to attack a marginalised group of society. And it is not the same as calling right wingers names.
Nice both side-ing.
