Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.
In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
In tandem with this announcement, the company made a number of updates across its Community Guidelines, an extensive set of rules that outline what kinds of content are prohibited on Meta’s platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. Some of the most striking changes were made to Meta’s “Hateful Conduct” policy, which covers discussions on immigration and gender.
In a notable shift, the company now says it allows “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.’”
In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy.
Based on what I’ve seen on the platform I didn’t realize they even had that rule in the first place
downvoted for calling it Meta
“Facebook, Instagram and Threads now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’”
There, I corrected the title for you. Happy?
Being an executive of Meta who succumb to conservashit rhetoric is a mental ilness.
“It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.
This is the same Joel Kaplan that participated in the brooks brothers riot stopping the recount of the ballots during the bush v gore election in 2000 where the republicans stole the election forever changing the course of American history.
Because they’re gay or trans, or because they’re on Facebook?
They already did not enforce the rules related to that…
They don’t enforce rules at all
They enforce anti-bullying, and by that I mean calling bigots bigots is considered as bullying by Facebook.
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Soon the Metaverse will resemble a classic CoD lobby.
Does the metaverse even exist? Like is it a thing people use?
This video is from last year and I doubt anything’s changed. It’s pretty funny if you haven’t seen it
I really like this video too
I’m just happy to see the old internet make a come back.
I’d rather be called the n-word by someone claiming to be having sexual relations with my mother.
Because I’m tired of hearing about how “PDF-files” went and “game-ended themselves”, because they had “corn” on their phones.
I prefer cesspools to a society so impossibly polite that it can only be a cover for a dystopia.
Yup. It’s insane that Demolition Man is becoming a non-fiction work.
Kinda saw it coming ten years ago when I realized that Demolition Man’s world was one where the mainstream was tumblr, and the counter culture forced to live in squalor for refusing to play along was 4Chan.
Heck Doug Walker had the same observation in his Nostalgia Critic review of the movie…
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The factuality of this is irrelevant as 99% of the time this will be used as a weapon to bully people. No one on facebook talks about metaphysics. Does anyone really think that there are meta discussions about the origins “of the gay” and what it means in our collective society?
Americans really fucked the world with their elections this year and it’s just the beginning.
People need to get a grip. This really feels like mass psychosis.
- Walk into Nazi bar.
- Pay dues to be a member (consume advertising, provide personal data).
- Be astonished at the fascist rhetoric of the Nazi bar!
If it were possible it would be fascinating to study the brains of people who do this. Is it old scar tissue from physical blows? Lesions from infections or illness? Just too much drugs and alcohol? Perhaps it’s a vascular issue from failing organs and too much salt? Food dye, radiation, lead?
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Comparing Facebook to a Nazi bar is ridiculous.
not really considering meta has several nazis on their board.
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The whole of American society is slowly shifting towards widespread acceptance of violence against queer people. Any notion that our society or culture has progressed in any way is fake. It’s empty. The post Stonewall era of perceived progress is over. For many queer people, the approach of January 20th is a shadow encroaching on the light of lives we hoped to live. Fear is becoming very commonplace in our communities. There’s no mistaking what the people in power plan to do to us. And every day, widespread society shows more and more that that’s fine. Any debate that we deserve rights is over. We are a problem for those in power to choose how to get rid of. Our lives are completely at the whims of the state, a state now being handed over to a group of people who delight in our suffering. Who delight in the suffering of children.
I fully expect states like Florida to criminalize being queer as soon as Trump takes office. They will start to raid night clubs and arrest trans people under crossdressing laws and gay people under sodomy laws. Just like they did in the 60s. We will be forced into hiding. We will grow up never understanding who we are or that its okay for people like us to exist. A whole generation of queer children will die because of laws like this. Nothing has changed.
Shoot 'em. The cops, I mean.
I wish, oh how I wish I could say you were lying or fear mongering.
The Democrats claiming they lost because they were “Too woke” and “Transpepole are to blame!11” despite the exit polls not supporting the reality of that idea was just manufacturing consent.
I honestly think conservatives want it to be legal for them to hunt and kill queer people in the streets.
At this rate, someday guys may be able to joke around again
This post is a work of satire
I stopped letting Meta take my attention once they started making my feed fill itself with “reccomended” “you might like” pages and profiles that I at no point ever clicked on or searched for.
before, my feed was exclusively my friends content, and pages I followed.
now, they fill the gaps with evangelicals, gambling, and idiots posting chinese and russian war propaganda.
yup, get the fuck out. im done.
Oh it’s a complete ghost town. Absolutely useless as actual social media. I suppose you could try starring/favoriting all your friends lol…
My entire feed is just nonsense now. Last year a guy I knew from my Warcraft days had cancer while a relative in Canada had a baby.
They both posted these things on Facebook.
What Facebook showed me was constant spam, so now I just see chess puzzle channels from India, street cooking videos from places with no hygiene laws, magic eye pictures and retro games. I’ve never asked it for any of these things, yet some algorithm detected I paused for a millisecond while scrolling past them so now that’s all I get. Fuck the people I know, right?
It used to be useful for exactly one thing and it can’t even do that any more. The only way you can actually see a proper feed without spam is to go into a person/group’s profile directly.
I decided I was going to discontinue using Meta products except to put out an occasional Instagram photo, pushed to Facebook, to tell…people I don’t even talk to anymore, and for good reason…that I was alive and a sight of what I was doing. I discontinued my old Facebook profile and made a new one only for this purpose.
Because Facebook kind of sees me as a new user, I’m able to see content I wasn’t able to before. And fuck, that place feels like some weird scam and bot flea market.
I hope it’s soon to die but who knows if it’ll transform into some unmasked arm of the government for surveillance.
I use the website / app for exactly one purpose, marketplace. buy and sell shit.
I still have messenger for work purposes, as well as some family and friends. but the “Feed”. the status updates, Fuck no. burn it all.
And you can’t even browse marketplace on the mobile site. It wants you to install their app.
And you get ads for anything you look up on Marketplace.
https://archive.ph/2NpvC non-paywalled link
