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I mean, if you purposefully misgender a cis person on Twitter, the same rule applies. Not sure what your issue is
"Cis" people dont care about being misgendered.
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They can do whatever they want, that's a given. The advertisers can do too. Welcome to hell, Elon. You fucked up real good, kiddo. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...
I bet the lickspittle 'joirnalists' that work at that digital rag stay on the platform.
The article was clear about that, the hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters and celebrities will stay, not question about that.
The argument here is that heavy moderation will stay too, for one because that's how you make money, and for two because Elon Musk wants to follow the law of the land, and those laws keep tightening.
Conservatives don't mind digital gulags as long as they get to be the wardens, but they will be disappointed this time. Everyone will be. And that's how Elon Musk will bring people together. We will all sing kumbaya while hating on him.
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> all they had to do is delete their tweet He could've gotten a lighter sentence if he just accepted the plea deal! Do you understand how silly this sounds. Moreover, they awarded Rachael Levine "Man of the Year" as a parody because they are a parody website that is right-leaning. Of all the things you could class as so-called "transphobia" this is what you choose? They never deserved to be banned. Additionally, I ca…
While I agree that the Bee should never have been banned, the answer to this problem is less censorship, not more. It sounds like you are calling for people who have different ideological views from you to be banned, but that is not how a healthy society should function. There are already tools you can use on Twitter and other platforms to ignore content you don’t want to see (mute or block, for example). Banning som…
> It sounds like you are calling for people who have different ideological views from you to be banned, but that is not how a healthy society should function.
It only sounds this way because I targeted the left here. I only did that because it’s Twitter. I would rather have the extremes removed from the platform regardless. It’s already enough of a mess as it is.
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> all they had to do is delete their tweet He could've gotten a lighter sentence if he just accepted the plea deal! Do you understand how silly this sounds. Moreover, they awarded Rachael Levine "Man of the Year" as a parody because they are a parody website that is right-leaning. Of all the things you could class as so-called "transphobia" this is what you choose? They never deserved to be banned. Additionally, I ca…
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They can do whatever they want, that's a given. The advertisers can do too. Welcome to hell, Elon. You fucked up real good, kiddo. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...
I bet the lickspittle 'joirnalists' that work at that digital rag stay on the platform.
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#286Their account was never banned and could always be viewed. There's nothing in this post that indicates anything has changed. From last week: https://web.archive.org/web/20221019005155/https://twitter.c...
This is correct. It's really disappointing to see a blatantly false fact being widely accepted as true on HackerNews.
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> Sex and gender are both significantly more complex than just chromosomes, genitalia, or organs. Everyone reading this needs to look up John Money. The founding father of "sex and gender are different".
What happened to Reimer was a travesty, and an affront to human decency on all levels. That doesn't change the truth that gender and biological sex are both characteristics of the human experience - usually they line up, and sometimes they don't.
>That doesn't change the truth that gender and biological sex are both characteristics of the human experience - usually they line up, and sometimes they don't.
I think it does, as that's the foundation of the notion. Prior to that, they were completely interchangeable and authors would use "gender" to mean "sex" where it was considered more crass to say "sex". Gender is just a euphemism for sex.
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Perhaps you are unaware that many recovering alcoholics choose to remain anonymous because revealing it would be damaging to their career. I don't tell people I'm bipolar under my real name because I noticed it scares people and they pull away from being friends with me. So don't tell me how trans women are more special than me.
Communicating your stigmas is optional, and rarely does anyone with institutional power demonize you or even attempt to de-facto ban you from public life for it. I am extremely obviously trans, I can't opt out of being beaten up because some conservative talking head said people like me are all pedophiles. And if the GOP had their way I'd be illegal anywhere a 10 year old could be as "inherently sexual".
It is not optional. I have to out myself as well. Any time I start getting in a serious relationship with someone I have to sit them down to have "the talk" about me being a recovering alcoholic and bipolar. It's usually a relationship killer.
Let's be honest, you have a better chance of finding love than I do. I've been single for 10 years.
Look, I don't want to fight. I just want to use humor to ease my pain. Humor is good for that. What's wrong with a joke about a trans woman?
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#289Great, they should have never been banned to begin with.
The right of free speech doesn't apply to a private company. A company has every right to dictate what services it will provide and the conditions for using those services. It is not a public communications carrier.
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Babylon Bee isn't under house arrest. This analogy is absurd. They weren't allowed to target hate towards a specific, named individual on their Twitter account. Everything else they were saying was more or less ok. And they still had plenty of other outlets, including their very successful website. This is like a single book publisher telling Galileo, "we won't print this one page, but the rest of the book is ok".
They targeted a public person who exists at the upper echelons of power and privilege. For a group of people so obsessed with comedy only “punching up” it’s ironic to see the justification.
Did they target her or did they target the idea of being trans?
> where he serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman
> We have still chosen to give the award as his self-identification has no bearing on the truth
If you attack a successful member of a minority group based on their minority you still aren't punching up, sorry.