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Twitter quietly removes its 'hateful conduct policy' prohibiting attacks on transgender people [1]

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Date: 2023-04-19  

From Clare Duffy, writing for CNN:

Twitter appears to have quietly rolled back a portion of its hateful conduct policy that included specific protections for transgender people. The policy previously stated that Twitter prohibits “targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” But the second line was removed earlier this month, according to archived versions of the page from the WayBack Machine.

Someone made a conscious effort to take out that one line. They sat in front of their keyboard and deleted it, with Musk’s approval.

But it’s all about freedom of speech, right? The new catchphrase on Musk’s Twitter is apparently “freedom of reach.” No, that’s not a joke.

“Restricting the reach of Tweets helps reduce binary ‘leave up versus take down’ content moderation decisions and supports our freedom of speech vs freedom of reach approach,” the company said in a tweet. Twitter also said it will not place ads next to content that has been labeled as violative.

So, Musk’s Twitter is now “freeing” itself to “reach,” it seems, anyone who wants to disseminate hate and slurs against transgendered individuals.

I’ll let GLAAD have the last word. As quoted in Duffy’s article:

“Twitter’s decision to covertly roll back its longtime policy is the latest example of just how unsafe the company is for users and advertisers alike,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said. “This decision to roll back LGBTQ safety pulls Twitter even more out of step with TikTok, Pinterest, and Meta, which all maintain similar policies to protect their transgender users at a time when anti-transgender rhetoric online is leading to real world discrimination and violence.”

There’s no good excuse or justification for this. At this point, it’s just condoning and normalizing hate for profit..

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