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>>senkor+(OP)
This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now:

> So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second.

> Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years [by ending fact checking?]. Way to upstage me, dude.

>>senkor+f1
The fact checking is the tip of the iceberg — it's what the marketing machine led with because it's the least objectionable. Far far worse is letting queer people like myself be called mentally ill, though not any other group (e.g. religious people). Yes, it's part of the common discourse, but the common discourse is objectively morally abhorrent.

I worked at FB for a decade, and I now am rooting for its complete destruction.

>>sunsho+CD6
If wanting to kill yourself over your sex isn't mental illness, I have no idea why insurance or the state should be concerned about it. We're not collectively paying for flat-chested women to get breast implants, or ugly men to get nose jobs, although they both may be upset about their bodies. We're also not labeling it as "life-saving."

I don't understand how we can insist that these conditions are both the worst mental illnesses, and not mental illnesses at all, at the same time. And maybe you do understand, but it's not so clearly explained that people shouldn't be allowed to discuss it in public.

> though not any other group (e.g. religious people).

Is this made up?

>>pessim+sb7
Is pregnancy an illness, mental or otherwise? Should insurance or the state not cover the medical costs of pregnancy?

What are your credentials, anyway? Why do you think you know more than decades of in depth research and millennia of anthropological evidence?

>>sunsho+Uf7
pregnancy is certainly a condition, though to call it an illness wouldnt be appropriate. Additional care should be provided to pregnant mothers from any human organization of any variety that hopes to continue existing.

He doesnt need credentials. No one needs credentials to be correct, their statements should be evaluated on their merits alone. Credentialism is a choking ideology, leading to higher prices and possibly higher quality in many things.