Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
Meta deleted nonbinary and trans themes for its Messenger app this week, around the same time that the company announced it would change its rules to allow users to declare that LGBTQ+ people are “mentally ill,” 404 Media has learned.
Trump has been pro gay marriage 100 percent of his presidency, as per the 60 minutes interview he did just a few days after being elected in ‘16. The previous President can’t say the same. Why didn’t these huge bootlicking efforts of removing profile icons happen in 2017-2020 during his first term?
I’m not disagreeing that could be what’s happening here to some degree but I’m also not 100 percent convinced that Trump is going to take notice of a small UI/profile customization change in an app he almost certainly doesn’t use with any regularity himself.
Just making it clear that it wasn’t about freedom of expression or speech. True freedom of speech would mean keeping these even if it made other people uncomfortable.
I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I’d vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.
Oh I know, it’s just that they said they’re removing moderation for “free speech” and then remove one of the ways you can express themselves. Just hypocritical.
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Zuck scrambling to be a bootlicker for the incoming administration.
Trump has been pro gay marriage 100 percent of his presidency, as per the 60 minutes interview he did just a few days after being elected in ‘16. The previous President can’t say the same. Why didn’t these huge bootlicking efforts of removing profile icons happen in 2017-2020 during his first term?
I’m not disagreeing that could be what’s happening here to some degree but I’m also not 100 percent convinced that Trump is going to take notice of a small UI/profile customization change in an app he almost certainly doesn’t use with any regularity himself.
Being pro gay marriage and pro transgender are completely different things.
Just making it clear that it wasn’t about freedom of expression or speech. True freedom of speech would mean keeping these even if it made other people uncomfortable.
I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I’d vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.
Facebook’s free speech, not yours.
Yes. I don’t have any guaranteed speech rights on Facebook.
I am well aware. However, it’s a bit misleading to rebrand yourself as a free speech platform but limit the speech you don’t like.
I agree.
Oh I know, it’s just that they said they’re removing moderation for “free speech” and then remove one of the ways you can express themselves. Just hypocritical.
For sure. Any social media company that says they’re pro free speech is just posturing at best. They have full dictator control of their systems.
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They are getting ready to roll out the Hate and Bigotry themes.
Corporations have no lasting value or moral.
It begins. Fascism requires enemies within and without.
All the more reason to leave anything Facebook related.
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