raven [he/him]

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Trans rights are gamer rights!

Essentially, more-or-less, broadly speaking, predominantly, etc. (for debatelords, that they may peper and solt it as they plese)

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  • No anti-"woke" voices are even remotely approaching getting "censored" or "silenced". If they are then why do I have to hear about them every fucking day?

    On the contrary, if you want to hear from a good portion of the population about issues that affect them you need some aggressively anti-racist anti-sexist anti-queerphobic etc spaces or you won't likely get the chance. Isn't hearing what real marginalized people have to say about their own experiences a million times more important than some vague worry about crypto-fash#56637 getting to say their piece which has already been heard and generally decided to be socially harmful and, importantly, silencing to the people their racist, ___-phobic etc speech implies violence to? A chilling effect as you ![freeze-peach](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2e218d49-4c3f-484f-b9fd-eeee92d43af3.png "emoji freeze-peach") enthusiasts call it.

    Isn't freedom of speech more about an individual having the right to hear from many viewpoints, than it is about an individual having the right to say anything and everything, anywhere, any time, they so desire?



  • The opinion:
    “Homophobia and white supremacy are bad and should be combated”

    It’s interesting that you think firefox is being “controversial” when their CEO writes a couple paragraphs about combating hate speech online, but brave isn’t when their CEO sends money to hate organizations. 🤔

    If the user share of Firefox falls too low websites will stop supporting it (which is already happening), we will have given google the internet. Everything that is not Firefox is based on Chrome.



  • I don’t think being anti white supremacy and homophobia is shitty or controversial. Why would an Internet company write an article about something that affects the biggest sector of the Internet, social media? 🤔
    “No they should stay in their lane and only talk about, I don’t know, CSS or something.” I don’t buy it.




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    1 year ago

    The “precise and specific actions” called for in that article, specifically for the purpose of combating speech that encourages violence, like homophobia or white supremacy:

    • Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

    • Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

    • Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

    • Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

    What’s your problem here?