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Twitter Removes Protections for Trans Users in New Policy

17 points by barbazoo 4y ago

barbazoo 4y ago
> Twitter’s policy used to read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” > That last sentence was deleted about 10 days ago
MissTake 4y ago
This does not surprise me. Saddens me for sure, but this is all part of his belief that to be tolerant you have to remove all barriers. So what if people get to continue to show how much hatred they have for people they do not know, nor effect them. It's important apparently to let those people get to show everyone else just how much hatred they can have to others, simply because they're Trans. This "tolerance" is of course a known paradox. A tolerant society cannot remain tolerant unless it exhibits a certain amount of intolerance over other intolerance. Musk meanwhile seems to be bound and determined the continue to make Twitter a place, not were people converse, but a town square full of the worst members of society get to have their anger amplified in what will eventually be nothing more than an echo chamber. Still don't see how this helps bring in advertisers. There's a reason why Parler has been taken down, and Gab, Truth Social and other similar pits of anger do appallingly bad jobs of getting advertising dollars. Still don't get his endgame - guessing it's because Musk isn't sure, either.
- Zigurd 4y ago
  You start out thinking "Nah, he can't just be that basic a white male techbro." And then you just can't find why not.
- PolygonSheep 4y ago
  > Musk meanwhile seems to be bound and determined the continue to make Twitter a place, not were people converse, but a town square full of the worst members of society get to have their anger amplified in what will eventually be nothing more than an echo chamber. To me it was like this before Musk, just the political polarity of it was reversed.
  - fdschonborn 4y ago
    You mean people were getting banned for good reasons and now Elon is allowing them to come back from their Parler/Truth-shaped hole?

17 points by barbazoo 4y ago

> Twitter’s policy used to read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” > That last sentence was deleted about 10 days ago

MissTake 4y ago

This does not surprise me. Saddens me for sure, but this is all part of his belief that to be tolerant you have to remove all barriers. So what if people get to continue to show how much hatred they have for people they do not know, nor effect them. It's important apparently to let those people get to show everyone else just how much hatred they can have to others, simply because they're Trans. This "tolerance" is of course a known paradox. A tolerant society cannot remain tolerant unless it exhibits a certain amount of intolerance over other intolerance. Musk meanwhile seems to be bound and determined the continue to make Twitter a place, not were people converse, but a town square full of the worst members of society get to have their anger amplified in what will eventually be nothing more than an echo chamber. Still don't see how this helps bring in advertisers. There's a reason why Parler has been taken down, and Gab, Truth Social and other similar pits of anger do appallingly bad jobs of getting advertising dollars. Still don't get his endgame - guessing it's because Musk isn't sure, either.

Zigurd 4y ago
You start out thinking "Nah, he can't just be that basic a white male techbro." And then you just can't find why not.
PolygonSheep 4y ago
> Musk meanwhile seems to be bound and determined the continue to make Twitter a place, not were people converse, but a town square full of the worst members of society get to have their anger amplified in what will eventually be nothing more than an echo chamber. To me it was like this before Musk, just the political polarity of it was reversed.
- fdschonborn 4y ago
  You mean people were getting banned for good reasons and now Elon is allowing them to come back from their Parler/Truth-shaped hole?