Submitted 10 months ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/
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.
It begins. Fascism requires enemies within and without.
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. 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.
Corporations have no lasting value or moral.
They are getting ready to roll out the Hate and Bigotry themes.
I wonder if they have internal studies on how social contagion works. I mean they sure have the raw data.
All the more reason to leave anything Facebook related.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
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.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months 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.
krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Facebook’s free speech, not yours.