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YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy (www.usermag.co)
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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

While I hate Google, this seems like one of those much ados over nothing. They specifically mention 'sex, gender, or sexual orientation', which to most reasonable people would cover gender identity.

[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Gender" means nothing without context. By a MAGAs definition of gender this policy doesn't protect trans people, for example. We don't know how this rule will be interpreted in practice. Even if you don't consider the intent behind making this change, this is objectively a weaker guarantee of protection than what we had with "gender identity and expression".

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

This is not a legal contract, it's a general guideline for users about what is or isn't acceptable. The intent and spirit of the terms are clear, the only question is whether Google will enforce them not. If the enforcement is crappy, like what Facebook is famous for, it doesn't matter a damn what exact terminology they use in the guidelines.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What matters is how this affects enforcement.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

It doesn't. It's not like this page gets used internally. They have their own internal guidelines for that.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You still think things are run by reasonable people?!

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, but I think most of the people on Lemmy should know better than that.

Looks at Hexbear, .ml, and to some extent Blahaj

Oh, who am I kidding.

[–] Comtief@lemm.ee 0 points 14 hours ago

Yeah its quite echo chambery here