Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

My mom believes the bullshit about LGBTQ being a mental illness. Can't wait for it to get worse! Thanks Facebook!

Billionaires have mental illness and have negatively affected me and society as a whole more than any gay or trans person ever could.

What do you mean "now?" I've been seeing people say that for years.

Zuck is one of humanity's cancers

As far as internet content goes, hate is winning. All the major social media platforms have been overrun by sexist, racist, LGBTQphobic commentary. And these platforms will simply follow the money, pushing hate content via algorithms as good people leave the platforms.

It's worth noting you're only allowed to insultingly say someone has a mental illness in relation to their gender or sexual orientation.

Do not post .... Insults, including those about: ... Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow 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.”

Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

Edit: and the changelog is a hoot.

When we start to say "bad things" about the oligarchy watch hoe fast they shut that down

Mark was never a source of good in this world.

Fuck Meta and Zuck. I wish I could stop using WhatsApp, as every other Meta product is out of my devices already.

Let's for a second assume it is a mental illness, how does that make the people feel who are experiencing it? Do they feel loved and understood? If you suffered from the same mental illness where the most effective treatment is tolerance and acceptance, how would you like to be treated?

People are free to out themselves as ignorant on Meta. Technology is getting crazy.

Billionaires have a mental illness

I like how he went from the Caesar cut and bland shirt to the style of what current-day 16-20 year old guys are rockin.

And by "like," I mean that I'm glad he still looks uncanny despite how normal his new style is, because he's a POS and nobody should sympathize with him.

They always did because their moderators didn’t act upon old rules anyway.

I left facebook after years of having meta not do anything about blatant transphobia and ableism that I reported to them. I got a death threat late last year and that was the final straw for me

I feel comfortable decreeing conservatives are a mental illness.

Zuckerberg has mental illness.

I guess this is what fascists consider "freedom".

Personally I would rather escape wasting my life in servitude to capital.

?? If you go through insta reels and comments you will encounter a metric called "n words / minute", I don't think meta cared about moderation at any point

Dana White is on the Meta board as happens to be the same time.

I thought it's widely-agreed that gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The debate lies in how to treat it—try to realign the body with the mind or the mind with the body.

What I want to know is who thought it was a good idea to give the kid who ate rocks at recess for attention an international platform. Hmm?

This is a good thing.

Let people say what they want. If you don't like it, you can always ignore them.

Soon as Trump gets elected, the disinformation campaign could resume.

Elon Musk is gay!

They always did

Looking at what's already been said I will most probably get down voted, but it should only back my words up.

People should be able to write everything they want on the internet. And I should have the right to totally ignore everything they say. So why should I become a snowflake and care about other people's opinion or think a big corporation will moderate somebody out of their platform? 🤔

This has always been the case.

I feel conflicted. On one hand, people can regulate themselves, and Facebook becoming a bigoted cesspit may bring more people to a moderated Fediverse.

On the other hand, these major platforms having such user monopoly and influence can cause unfettered hate speech to breed violence.

I’m conflicted about the idea that an insidious for-profit megacorporation should be expected to uphold a moral responsibility to prevent violence; their failure to do so might be a necessary wake-up call that ultimately strips them of that problematic influence. Thoughts?

If you don't let them speak up, how are we going to find the racists? They're all old so it's not like they just suddenly appeared when Obama was elected. They've been hiding and hidden. Bring the assholes into the light, and let's get out the dildo of consequence.

I think the big reason they are allowing it is because they got to cut the entire cost of having moderation with an external vendor. Not because they have an agenda or anything. Its pure dollars.

So what I see is, Meta first creates the problem of trans-metaverse by super aggressive inorganic promotion and then makes it even worse by cutting the expenses on such useless promotion. XD

L for all those who fell for it. Society eats you up (not sexually, keep your pants on) for getting mentally manipulated so easily.

On the bright side, if there's a boomer who only posts bad memes about how much he hates his wife, you can say he has a mental illness.

You could before, because it's true, but you still can too.