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Literally all major platform websites--Youtube, Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.--ban all posts which contain misgendering and deadnaming as part of t
by dudeinjapan 4y ago
Literally all major platform websites--Youtube, Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.--ban all posts which contain misgendering and deadnaming as part of their broader "hate speech" policies.
Agree or not, this is "censorship", and it is "widespread".
It is hard to show examples of censored content because it is, you know, censored. But you can try some posts for yourself on these platforms and see how it goes.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-conduct-policy https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...
https://decisionmagazine.com/facebook-says-misgendering-considered-hate-speech/ https://decisionmagazine.com/facebook-says-misgendering-cons...
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079643611/tiktok-bans-deadnaming-misgendering https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079643611/tiktok-bans-deadna...
- themitigating 4y agoI disagree, in my opinion censorship is when an authority, like the government, punishes speech. If I uses the nword on twitter and get banned would that be censorship? It's listed with deadnaming in the TOS
- dudeinjapan 4y agoSo, you don't consider multi-trillion dollar valued companies, whose annual revenues are greater than the GDP of the majority of countries in the world, and who have sole control over platforms used by over 1/3 the world's entire population, to be "authorities" capable of censorship. OK, well, good luck then.
- themitigating 4y agoNo, because you can use another product. The government can fine or send you to jail.
- dudeinjapan 4y agoLiterally all major products currently have similar censorship rules, no matter which one you choose. Re: countries, "you can move to another country." The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.