YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
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Boycotts are performative stunts that feel good but don't have impact on companies and even gets more attention ON those companies.
No really, this is a phenomenon that's known. When people were protesting Blizzard, I swear to fucking god, people I knew for years who hadn't played WoW since they were kids suddenly decided to reactivate their accounts because all the talk about blizzard "made them nostalgic" and despite being sympathetic to the people hurt by the company, they simply didn't have the mental value-system to draw lines between those two things. Their own desires to escape and recapture youth was far, far stronger than the social messaging they honestly just felt was finger-wagging and parental scolding, so they rejected the idea of protesting without conscious thought.
If we put that much energy into volunteering with groups raising funds for primaries, getting to know our neighbors and forming communities, we would abolish this fascist empire in a single election cycle. (Assuming we have elections again.)
wrote 20 days ago last edited byBoycotts are not enough, but in combination with girlcotts they are very efficient.
I'll see myself out.
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(For reference: I am cishet, but have family & friends in the LGBTQ+ community and consider myself an ally.) Usually just lurk, but I feel you so badly.
I've been saying it forever as well. They're spending millions, to specifically target/advertise/appeal to the community... out of the goodness of their hearts? Right.
Then as soon as its "over", the facade drops and its on to the next big event/target market. Rinse and repeat.
wrote 20 days ago last edited byAs a cishet I saw it what was as soon as they started it. It was about 10-15 years ago. It was sleazy then, and it's sleazy now. They are just trying to milk the population as much as they can. They don't give two fucks about inclusiveness or equality. They know a large portion of Americans want equality. So it's a cash cow.
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MELVIN USED MORAL SUPERIORITY
BUT IT FAILED
IT HURT ITSELF IN ITS CONFUSION
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Boycotts are not enough, but in combination with girlcotts they are very efficient.
I'll see myself out.
wrote 20 days ago last edited byThey say when a boycott meets a girlcott, a baby cot is born...
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Boycotts are not enough, but in combination with girlcotts they are very efficient.
I'll see myself out.
wrote 20 days ago last edited byBest reply I got here tbh.
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So, sundar pinchai can be added to the list of CEOs that suck?
Because a lot of the time, it's weird that when the company does nasty shit, nobody names him as the head asshole in charge the way that other companies and ceos get handled.
The dude has been in the driver's seat for pretty much every major deterioration of Google/alphabet for years.
wrote 20 days ago last edited byPrabhakar Raghavanalso also deserves a dishonorable mention.
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Of course everyone is allowed to speak their mind. But being called names for not supporting a particular point of view sounds like hate speech to me, wouldn't you agree?
wrote 20 days ago last edited byNo, hate speech is targeting someone for how they were born. (Skin color, sexual orientatio, gender identity, ect.) Reacting to someone saying stupid shit is not hate speech and dilutes the meaning of the word to use it that way.
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I used newpipe for a long time, currently using a fork called pipepipe. I forgot why I switched lol
wrote 20 days ago last edited byOoh, great to know. Thanks!
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It's almost impressive how quickly the whole of the business world capitulated to Donald Trump.
wrote 20 days ago last edited byThey didn't capitulate. They were mostly faking it all along, friend. It made for good profit at the time and to get good Blackrock or Vanguard investment money.
This is why despite putting rainbows in X, or FB, or YT, or LinkedIn profiles in the USA or in some Western countries, no company ever did that in any profile outside the West.
It was all for show... and money.
If they actually believe it they would have done so across the board. Yet they didn't. They were just hoping most people wouldn't notice. Many did. There was a meme RE: this floating around from years ago, too. -
It’s almost like their support for these issues was never genuine to begin with.
wrote 20 days ago last edited byExactly.
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Consider the decentralized family of https://trom.tf/ apps, such as https://search.trom.tf/ as a replacement (that's the only one I use of their stuff so far... but may poke around more later).
wrote 20 days ago last edited byWhat a treasure trove. I love lemmy
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What a treasure trove. I love lemmy
wrote 20 days ago last edited byIronically........ I myself found this through Reddit, no joke! But yeah, I hope to sway more people here.
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Don'tBe Evilwrote 18 days ago last edited byDo the "right" thing.
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Probably for SponsorBlock.
wrote 18 days ago last edited byYou're correct! And its done such a good job that it's allowed me to forget (unintentionally) that issue even exists!
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