Confessorx

He shouldn’t have any more influence than any other citizen, he’s not an elected official.

30.03.2025 01:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

08.01.2025 01:52 — 👍 24817    🔁 6401    💬 862    📌 341

I hope #heartstopper doesn’t use instagram as the groups messaging app next season as they believe being gay or trans is a mental illness.

08.01.2025 22:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:

Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

03.12.2024 22:16 — 👍 23230    🔁 4558    💬 410    📌 149