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Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.

In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”

In tandem with this announcement, the company made a number of updates across its Community Guidelines, an extensive set of rules that outline what kinds of content are prohibited on Meta’s platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. Some of the most striking changes were made to Meta’s “Hateful Conduct” policy, which covers discussions on immigration and gender.

In a notable shift, the company now says it allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird.’”

In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy.

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[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Finally the oppression is over, finally. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Seems like Meta has a collective mental illness

[–] capital@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get the sense a bunch of y’all weren’t around for the early internet.

Lots of dumb people out there and they’re doing to say all kinds of deranged shit. Grow a pair and move on.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Real "Old Man on the Porch" vibes coming from this one. I was around for the early internet, you're completely losing touch with society and reality if you think it's the same.

Most people at that time didn't get their news and gossip from a device in their hand. It was called a newspaper, education, or listening to your peers. Internet extremists were still considered fringe or whacko's and you had to hunt them down to learn more, they weren't blasted by an algorithm on a front loading page for you.

People's businesses and way of life weren't determined by their access to internet and the corporations didn't have such a stranglehold across the economical board when it came to online. The hero worship of those that control the companies wasn't at such an all time high, but considered a weird cult.

I'm not even going to go into the difference a child has on the internet today versus what a kid going through the 90's was like, there's just no comparison to what's going on now. Yeah we had obscure boards, messengers, and silly videos on multiple sites....that's seriously nothing compared to how mainstream everything has become.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Some of them do have mental illness, just like some straight people have mental illness

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Like fuckerburg

I also love how someone actually got offended and downvoted you for saying literal fact that a human, can have mental illness.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything gets downvoted on lemmy, that's why I turned off downvoting in preferences and it's a way better experience.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ohh you can do that? I should check if jebroa has it too, not like downvotes usually bother me.

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[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Presumably they'll roll back their censorship of Palestinian journalists now they love free speech so much.

[–] AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you see, free speech is only for reactionaries.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago

That's pretty much what conservative/right-wing 'freedom' is: freedom for me but not for thee.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who the fuck still uses Facebook?

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago

At this rate, someday guys may be able to joke around again

This post is a work of satire

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not like they would stop believing those things if Facebook didn't let them express it. At least now we can argue with them in the open.

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,”

Yet when my mom tried to post about a museum visit, Facebook wouldn't let her because it contained the word "Lenin". Interesting.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago

Not much to elaborate here, the situation was what I described above. As for how this is relevant to the post, I feel like Meta/Facebook has also jumped on the "free speech for me but not for thee" bandwagon.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I still think this whole idea that we were going to get big tech (or anyone really), as owners of the modern mediums of communication, to act as the arbiters of truth and harmful messages was always a ridiculous notion. It's both not in their interests and not in their power.

The mainstream of the liberals and the left seem to have become so obsessed with policing speech that they've nearly completely given up on meaningfully improving the material conditions of people's lives. You win the narrative by delivering real results that people can see and feel, not by trying to ban charlatans from spinning bullshit.

Change the world, and the narrative will follow. Not the other way around.

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