Meta removes many hate speech protections(opentermsarchive.org)
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Meta removes many hate speech protections
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/meta-dampens-hate-speech-policy/
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Meta rewrote the hashtag#HateSpeech section of the Community Guidelines for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Explicit permissions now include insulting language in discussions on sensitive topics like transgender rights and immigration, while some restrictions, such as dehumanizing comparisons or calls for exclusion, have been removed.
ClassyJacket(1)
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Quite a shift in rhetoric since Trump was elected. Meta will probably realize big savings from this — apparently they have (had) 40,000 fact checkers
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627
https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/h...
> Do not post: [...]
> - Insults, including those about: [...]
> Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness. [...] We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation
Under this policy, you aren't allowed to call someone mentally ill as an insult, unless it's because they're gay or trans.
If this were just removing protections, you would be able to call anyone mentally ill. Instead, this policy grants special protection to homophobic and transphobic speech.