• @[email protected]
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    It’s worth noting you’re only allowed to insultingly say someone has a mental illness in relation to their gender or sexual orientation.

    Do not post … Insults, including those about: … Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. 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.”

    Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

    Edit: and the changelog is a hoot.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 months ago

    It’s freedom of speech. Being able to say what you want and suffer the consequences of your decisions is what it is all about.

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      Oh you mean like specifically disallowing people from calling someone crazy unless that person is gay or trans? How the fuck is that “free speech”?

      I can post some violent fantasy online and meta won’t allow you to call me crazy for it, but if you call me crazy because you think I’m gay that’s just fine?

    • @[email protected]
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      Except it’s not really “freedom of speech?” You can’t normally say someone is mentally ill - the verbiage is that you can specifically only call LGBT people mentally ill.

  • @[email protected]
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    I think the big reason they are allowing it is because they got to cut the entire cost of having moderation with an external vendor. Not because they have an agenda or anything. Its pure dollars.

    • @[email protected]
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      Nah it’s clearly ideological when you look at the details of their new moderation policies. They now allow you to call people crazy, but only if it’s because they’re LGBT.

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        I don’t think so. Zuck never cared about people, he’s cut-throat, egotistical and money/power focussed. He wouldn’t take the time for thinking about insulting the little people (non-millionaires). He’s done it to encourage more users to use the platform and create disputes/content which is cold hard cash to him. Remember when they experimented with users by showing them content that would trigger them to make them interact?

  • @[email protected]
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    What I want to know is who thought it was a good idea to give the kid who ate rocks at recess for attention an international platform. Hmm?

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      Is this a meme I don’t know?

      Zuck is extraordinarily intelligent. You don’t get into Harvard as a non legacy eating rocks.

      Nor did anyone give it to him. He took it by cheating the partners that made Facebook grow in it’s early years.

      • @[email protected]
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        You’re correct in the second half though. It doesn’t take brains to steal, see November 5 2024.

        • @[email protected]
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          C’mon now. Don’t do that. Be better than that.

          What we have to understand, and accept is that the election was not stolen. It exists in a broken system where only a handful of states actually have votes that matter. And this time, those states willingly voted for trump. Texas was never going to vote for any democrat. California was never going to vote for any republican.

          The few states that mattered, namely PA, voted trump.

          It sucks, but thats what happened. You can’t just call fraud because you don’t like the gerrymandering and the oppressed voting. Those are issues to address in the years BEFORE the election. Start addressing them now for 2028.

          • @[email protected]
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            It doesn’t take brains to steal but you have to be a special kind of stupid to re elect Trump after his extraordinary failure of 2016-2020.

            • Dragon Rider (drag)
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              Yeah you can. Lots of people chose not to vote because they knew their votes were too gerrymandered to matter.

  • @[email protected]
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    “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,”

    I somewhat respect that statement actually.

  • Lad
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    As far as internet content goes, hate is winning. All the major social media platforms have been overrun by sexist, racist, LGBTQphobic commentary. And these platforms will simply follow the money, pushing hate content via algorithms as good people leave the platforms.

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      Make two Reddit accounts, one saying “I love trans people” and one saying “I hate trans people”. I bet the latter will get banned first.

    • @[email protected]
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      And these platforms will simply follow the money

      This, remember that every single pride sponsorship and rainbow coloured logo was approved by a marketing department after extensive market research deeming it to be profitable

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        And only broadcast in subregions of their market where they know it’s a good PR move.

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      His whole thing is procreation. Not happiness, not love, not companionship, just spreading his seed into as many women as possible. When you’re rich they let you do it. He got this idea from his dad. For his dad, some of those women were his stepdaughters…so there’s still time for Elon to get even grosser.

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    If you don’t let them speak up, how are we going to find the racists? They’re all old so it’s not like they just suddenly appeared when Obama was elected. They’ve been hiding and hidden. Bring the assholes into the light, and let’s get out the dildo of consequence.