{"id":12206,"date":"2024-03-02T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/social-media-platform-x-censors-misgendering\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:30:29","slug":"social-media-platform-x-censors-misgendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/social-media-platform-x-censors-misgendering\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Platform X Censors &#8216;Misgendering&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, reinstated policies that censor posts \u201cmisgendering\u201d individuals.<\/p>\n<p>In its \u201cAbuse and Harassment\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/abusive-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policies<\/a>, X brought back a section called \u201cUse of Prior Names and Pronouns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition,\u201d the policy reads. \u201cGiven the complexity of determining whether such a violation has occurred, we must always hear from the target to determine if a violation has occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>X initially dropped the policy in April 2023.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Elon Musk said the reinstated policy is \u201cjust about repeated, targeted harassment of a particular person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the correct sex based pronouns for someone is \u2018harassment\u2019?\u201d Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok asked. \u201cWe\u2019re being forced to lie? What about harassment in general? There are accounts who repeatedly target and harass specific individuals in an obsessive way. What constitutes \u2018repeated\u2019 and \u2018targeted\u2019 and why do only one group of people get this special treatment?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Using the correct sex based pronouns for someone is \u201charassment\u201d? We\u2019re being forced to lie? What about harassment in general? There are accounts who repeatedly target and harass specific individuals in an obsessive way. What constitutes \u201crepeated\u201d and \u201ctargeted\u201d and why do only\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChayaRaichik10\/status\/1763441998231454022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The move follows X CEO Linda Yaccarino <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/x-ceo-protect-free-speech-while-combatting-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a> in a\u00a0blog post\u00a0that while \u201csociety\u2019s progress\u201d calls for the freedom of speech, the line must be drawn at \u201chate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo drive humanity forward, society must empower people to express their thoughts, make up their own minds, but also draw the line at hate,\u201d she wrote, emphasizing, \u201cThis is tough to do, but absolutely crucial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor all the good, there\u2019s also a point when information independence crosses a line too, and that\u2019s hate speech,\u201d Yaccarino added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mandate at X is clear: we must protect free speech, safeguard information independence while tackling antisemitism and hate speech. Through our collective technologies and human potential we can create a safer and more inclusive environment for everyone \u2013 giving way for information independence to be a force for good. It won\u2019t happen overnight, but we must start now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/social-media-platform-x-censors-misgendering\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, reinstated policies that censor posts \u201cmisgendering\u201d individuals. In its \u201cAbuse and Harassment\u201d policies, X brought back a section called \u201cUse of Prior Names and Pronouns.\u201d \u201cWe will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}