> You know who doesn't discriminate against my group? Big tech companies.
Yes, they just give megaphones to, and make bank on, the propagandists that are responsible for the current moral panic that's resulted in the US government discriminating against LGBT people.
These are the same companies that facilitated propaganda that led to hate and violence like this[1]. A deeper look with plentiful citations is here[2] from the Harvard Systemic Justice Project.
To give you an example that happened here in the US, a friend recently moved back to the city because his neighbors felt emboldened to constantly call him slurs on Facebook when they disagreed with him. He couldn't use local Facebook groups without bigots following him around and calling him slurs. They felt emboldened after this[3], knowing Facebook would do nothing about it. Discriminatory harassment over Facebook after their policy shift drove him from his own home. Facebook's policies allowed a community to successfully rid itself of a minority it didn't want to see or hear.
What do you want tech to do? Use agents to deploy an apparatchik to every man woman and child? Wouldn't that leave people like you out of a job? What would you do all day? Tech platforms should take no part in the social disagreements of the people. They should be neutral unbiased providers of digital space.
What's stopping you from doing that? They tried to come for my passport but missed. Our heroes in the civil service saw to that. Just got a new one in the mail today and I'm so happy.
Yes, they just give megaphones to, and make bank on, the propagandists that are responsible for the current moral panic that's resulted in the US government discriminating against LGBT people.
These are the same companies that facilitated propaganda that led to hate and violence like this[1]. A deeper look with plentiful citations is here[2] from the Harvard Systemic Justice Project.
To give you an example that happened here in the US, a friend recently moved back to the city because his neighbors felt emboldened to constantly call him slurs on Facebook when they disagreed with him. He couldn't use local Facebook groups without bigots following him around and calling him slurs. They felt emboldened after this[3], knowing Facebook would do nothing about it. Discriminatory harassment over Facebook after their policy shift drove him from his own home. Facebook's policies allowed a community to successfully rid itself of a minority it didn't want to see or hear.
[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face...
[2] https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...
[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-spee...