news Meta (Facebook, Instagram) will permit users to say LGBTQ people are mentally ill

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The company's new guidelines prohibit insults about someone's intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations. However, the latest guidelines now include a caveat for accusing LGBTQ people of being mentally ill because they are gay or transgender. 

 

Zuckerberg cited "recent elections" and "a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech."

 

The long list of changes to the new hate speech guidelines include removing rules that forbid insults about a person's appearance based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease. Meta also scrapped policies that prohibited expressions of hate against a person or a group on the basis of their protected class and that banned users from referring to transgender or nonbinary people as "it."

 

GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group, denounced the changes.

"Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives," 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-speech-rules-allow-users-call-lgbtq-people-mentally-ill-rcna186700

 

If you haven't deleted your account here's another reason.

[Alyssa Edwards]

so... nothing will change over at meta ?

[Sheep]

If this website is anything to go by I agree

 

Spoiler

Jokes aside these guidelines made social media a safer space but also hid a lot of people's real opinions about us. Social media should reflect its userbase for better and for worse if it's going to be a primary source of information. As long as it's okay to properly call out and attack users of hate speech in return I don't fully disagree with this. If MAGAs didn't feel the need to self-censor 24/7 and were educated instead of shamed into silently keeping their backwards views we wouldn't have a christofascist dictatorship starting here in less than 2 weeks.

 

It's worrying that this isn't coming with any measures to break people out of their political echo chambers though because while social media should reflect society, nobody's individual feed actually does. It's hard to feel like this is anything other than an attempt by the ruling corporations to continue radicalizing and dividing the public.

 

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Sheep

[ohjulia]

Are LGBTQ+ excluded from being mentally ill? 

[Sheep]

3 minutes ago, ohjulia said:

Are LGBTQ+ excluded from being mentally ill? 

Babes the second sentence of the quote explains why you misread the headline. The one op made impossible to miss if you read the topic.

[Rep2000]

3 minutes ago, ohjulia said:

Are LGBTQ+ excluded from being mentally ill? 

This is just obtuse. Meta's new policy removed fact check as well, so they can call you both a convicted rapist and a household object at the same time and get away with it.

It's trash social media now.

[KFC]

Not surprising coming from the platform that allows folk to openly call black people monkeys and apes

[shoganai]

Weren't they allowed already?

[LostInStereo100]

??? Isn't this already the case  

[NoOneDiesFromLove]

I see free speech = hate speech 

 

+ who uses Facebook anymore 

[Sawk]

This is literally nothing new, if you see IG comments… chile…  The pits of hell 

[Rogue_Redux]

So shocking 

[stjosephprey4us]

I am seeing the writing on the wall with global culture now… Time to pack it up and move to Chromatica girlies!! Xx

[Pendulum]

20 minutes ago, NoOneDiesFromLove said:

+ who uses Facebook anymore 

the same thing applies to Instagram

[MatiRod]

The minute their survival and $ is threatened, the same powerful elite that turned their logo into pride colours will throw gay people under the bus. Sad but predictable. We have to look out for each other in the end.

[MatiRod]

23 minutes ago, NoOneDiesFromLove said:

I see free speech = hate speech 

 

+ who uses Facebook anymore 

No one but Instagram is still very big and important if you want to reach any kind of audience. It's basically impossible to have a career in music for example without an active Instagram.

[Jotham]

It's so depressing to see all the progress the LGBT+ movement made suddenly vanish within these past couple of years.

[Illuminati]

That video where Zuck looked like he was held at gunpoint said it all, he was word for word speaking like Elon Musk

[Velvet Night]

Zuckerberg seriously looked at Musk and saying "Maybe I should start to emulate him".

 

I'm done with IG now and will delete my account today. 

[allforyou]

Not surprising, Facebook has been trash for almost a decade now

[Dancehall Queen]

Post this article on IG, I'm trying to see something. 

[Hephaestus]

I would be upset by it IF this meant anything changing for Meta's users. As we all know though those categories weren't actually protected even when they were mentioned in the guidelines.

 

Seeing corporations bend to Trump's USA is appalling though. Scary.

[Gorjesspazze9]

2 hours ago, Sheep said:

If this website is anything to go by I agree

 

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Jokes aside these guidelines made social media a safer space but also hid a lot of people's real opinions about us. Social media should reflect its userbase for better and for worse if it's going to be a primary source of information. As long as it's okay to properly call out and attack users of hate speech in return I don't fully disagree with this. If MAGAs didn't feel the need to self-censor 24/7 and were educated instead of shamed into silently keeping their backwards views we wouldn't have a christofascist dictatorship starting here in less than 2 weeks.

 

It's worrying that this isn't coming with any measures to break people out of their political echo chambers though because while social media should reflect society, nobody's individual feed actually does. It's hard to feel like this is anything other than an attempt by the ruling corporations to continue radicalizing and dividing the public.

 

 

 

Who me? Well Maybe a little bit

[Sheep]

25 minutes ago, Gorjesspazze9 said:

Who me? Well Maybe a little bit

We'll be Forever 1 in the maga conversion camps/mental asylums 

[Radical Pessimism]

Yeah because social media was a safe haven in the past for us gays lol