| ▲ | heavyset_go 14 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> You know who doesn't discriminate against my group? Big tech companies. Yes, they just give megaphones to, and make bank on, the propagandists that are responsible for the current moral panic that's resulted in the US government discriminating against LGBT people. These are the same companies that facilitated propaganda that led to hate and violence like this[1]. A deeper look with plentiful citations is here[2] from the Harvard Systemic Justice Project. To give you an example that happened here in the US, a friend recently moved back to the city because his neighbors felt emboldened to constantly call him slurs on Facebook when they disagreed with him. He couldn't use local Facebook groups without bigots following him around and calling him slurs. They felt emboldened after this[3], knowing Facebook would do nothing about it. Discriminatory harassment over Facebook after their policy shift drove him from his own home. Facebook's policies allowed a community to successfully rid itself of a minority it didn't want to see or hear. [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face... [2] https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho... [3] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-spee... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jart 11 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
The first amendment protects free speech. The people must have their say. | |||||||||||||||||
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