Same (and same)
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WFTDA are creating a new âOpenâ gender division separate from the womenâs division and are specifically banning teams from pushing any trans person into Open on the basis of local laws against including trans women in womenâs teams.
As it should be. Love derby
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Historically related:
My mood:
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Thatâs despairing. And useful.
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Bluesky âTrust and Safetyâ doing the exact opposite. Iâve been using this list since itâs been available and it is a key part of keeping my skyline clean and fresh and TERF free.
Theyâve been targeting a number of these sorts of lists (racism, ableism, anti-native) etc lately and I wonder if all the âBluesky is a Librul Echo Chamberâ news stories are making them think their best option for growth is to serve up their minority communities to bigotsâŚ
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Or, and this is a hypothesis not yet worth calling a theory, all social media eventually goes neonazi because the founders believe in absolute free speech and thatâs what unfettered free speech inherently devolves to. There have to be consequences to hate speech. Expecting the community to self-correct is naive at best.
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I donât think this is anything to do with free speech. Itâs an attempt to force us to interact with the people that hate us. Right now, they can say what they want and I donât have to read it cause I subscribe to the blocklist. By removing the list, theyâre exposing minorities that have taken explicit steps to hide from that kind of speech. This is how they have said that we should handle bigotry from the very beginning, and now itâs not good that we are using the tools they gave us.
And why? I really think the stories about Bluesky being an echo chamber have been keeping people away from the site, and the company doesnât like that. So theyâve begun attacking the tools weâre using to protect ourselves that the bigots donât like cause they prevent them from getting access.
Iâm tired of having to find a new home constantly. I just want a place online I can interact with my community without all the formality and hassle of a discord server or whatever. Is that too much to ask?
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Freedom of association is an integral part of both freedom of speech and assembly.
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Absolutely not. And you shouldnât have to. You shouldnât have to hide. You shouldnât have to edit yourself. I donât want to see hate speech, either, even when itâs not directed at me. Because itâs directed at people I care about, and itâs ugly and has no place in a civil society.
I just think that social media companies are never going to self police for hate speech. More often, they end up punishing the reaction to hate speech. We need stronger regulation of hate speech and make sure it includes social media.
Make Bigots Afraid Again.
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We really canât have nice things, can we?
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Itâs an unfair competitive advantage. If trans people are going to stop fires, then thereâs an obligation to apologize to the fires, and start more. /s
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Florida judge dismisses case against trans woman jailed for using restroom at state capitol
https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-trans-woman-restroom-capitol
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The EHRC is meant to protect everyoneâs rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Hereâs what we found.
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I just want to ask people like that, why is it important?
Why does someone need to know either a personâs current gender, or sex assigned at birth, unless itâs specifically to be used to discriminate against them in some way? Oh wait, the question answers itself.
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