Obviously things in my life haven't been going well, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about the changes in Meta moderation policies *expressly* designed to facilitate fascist propaganda, the dehumanization of people nazis don't like, and why this is an obvious example of the mainstream establishment (private and public) accommodating and directly supporting fascist agendas that will literally get marginalized people killed in the long run.
Archived link: https://archive.is/RTgE0#selection-1561.0-1579.1
Original link: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-meta-announcement-fact-checking-hate-speech-b2675594.html
Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women âpropertyâ and transgender people âfreaksâ
"Added in to the policy are new clauses apparently designed to explicitly allow common anti-trans arguments, such as advocating for trans people to be banned from public bathrooms, school sports, or certain jobs.
"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation," reads one exception. The same section previously said that users couldnât call protected groups âfreaksâ or âabnormalâ.
Meta also replaced language banning âgeneralizationsâ about a protected groupâs âinferiorityâ on the basis of âintellectual capacityâ. Now the new language merely bans âunsupported comparisonsâ between protected groupsâ on the basis of their âinherent intellectual capacityâ â seemingly opening the door to scientific racism."
I chose this article, despite its simplified headline, because while most of the coverage of Meta's policy update has been critical, very few outlets are highlighting the reality that Zuckerberg is expressly creating exceptions to allow the targeting of marginalized groups like trans people, migrants, nonwhite people, and even women in general, while still maintaining rules that protect cracker fascists from that same form of targeting. Facebook and Instagram are still gonna suspend the shit out of you for saying things that make fascists uncomfortable, criticizing Israel's genocide in Gaza, and advocating for the end of reactionary capitalist police states; they are just creating direct exemptions for fascists to dehumanize people they don't like and facilitate pogroms against those people. As such the popular framing of this policy change as being about "free speech" or "depoliticizing moderation" is in fact a sick farce.
Furthermore, while I won't argue with the obvious reality that part of why Meta and Zuckerberg are doing this is an attempt to curry favor with an incoming (fascist) Trump administration, I don't think calling this appeasement goes far enough. In Meta's own explanation for these policy changes, they are making it clear that as far as they're concerned, this type of hate speech and dehumanization is now mainstream and normalized enough that they don't mind actively supporting it and providing a platform for expressing it; providing an outlet for speech (in exchange for advertiser revenue) is after all the business model of these platforms. Appeasement would look like keeping the policies against hate speech, but simply refusing to enforce them against influential fascists in the public and private sectors; which has already been the de facto policy at most large social media companies before now. By actively providing a megaphone for this type of hate speech and dehumanization, what Zuck is now doing is directly collaborating with a fascist agenda that will lead to violence against marginalized people, in precisely the way I told you American corporations would collaborate as the Pig Empire fascist movement gained power, several years ago. This is what that collaboration looks like, and while you might argue with me that it won't be that bad, the entire history of pogroms and genocides conducted by fascists against targeted marginalized groups says you're wrong.
#Fascism #Meta #HateSpeech #Facebook #SocialMedia #Collaborators #Pogroms #LGBTQRights #WomensRights #TransRights #Politics #Capitalism
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