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1. wordof+96[view] [source] 2025-01-12 23:10:08
>>joeman+(OP)
Facebook removing 'fact' checkers is good, they weren't fact checkers, they were bias enforcers.

Community notes is far superior to the bias enforcers.

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2. walrus+Q6[view] [source] 2025-01-12 23:14:40
>>wordof+96
That's not all FB is doing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-spee...

"Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity, among broader changes it made to its moderation policies and practices Tuesday.

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The long list of changes to the new hate speech guidelines include removing rules that forbid insults about a person’s appearance based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease. Meta also scrapped policies that prohibited expressions of hate against a person or a group on the basis of their protected class and that banned users from referring to transgender or nonbinary people as “it.”"

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3. xyzzy4+kd[view] [source] 2025-01-13 00:03:58
>>walrus+Q6
>accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity

But the question is, are trans people actually mentally ill objectively? It certainly doesn't help them reproduce (a form of survival) from a biological perspective, for example.

This Johns Hopkins professor thinks it's mental illness:

https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/scpsva/Board.nsf/files/B8UR4X...

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4. junto+LQ[view] [source] 2025-01-13 07:08:57
>>xyzzy4+kd
It’s nuanced. Something that appears to have been lost during the last years of trans hate.

> Like all DSM illnesses, one key component of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, all of that, is that you have to be functionally impaired by it, otherwise it doesn’t count as a diagnosis

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/health/is-gender-dysphori...

Many trans people fought to keep it in the DSM for the simple reason that health providers would have refused treatment if it was removed.

There are many trans people that have had treatment and live perfectly happy lives. What makes many trans people unhappy is society’s persistent persecution of them in politics and media.

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5. disco_+dn1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 12:50:17
>>junto+LQ
> What makes many trans people unhappy is society’s persistent persecution of them in politics and media.

Then maybe they should have thought of that before advocating for males to invade women's spaces and for children to be medically harmed.

This so-called "persecution" is happening because boundaries need to be asserted. They abused the kindness and tolerance of others, and are now seeing the effects of this.

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