Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

My mom believes the bullshit about LGBTQ being a mental illness. Can't wait for it to get worse! Thanks Facebook!

What do you mean "now?" I've been seeing people say that for years.

Yup, and if you reported it as hate speech they'd review it and say it doesn't go against community guidelines.
It's just they're updating their terms now that Trump is in power. Hate started to rise since the beginning of GenAI on the platform, I highly suspect due to the backlash from socially progressive people against it, and techbros didn't appreciate that. They're going mask off now after the elections.

Zuck is one of humanity's cancers

Maybe the next Luigi can fix the Z problem
- might as well kill the tr*mp and the couch fucker

Billionaires have mental illness and have negatively affected me and society as a whole more than any gay or trans person ever could.

Immense wealth is not compatible with the moral life. It’s also not compatible with Christianity, but I don’t think any of them truly care about religion. The drive for greed should be a mental illness, especially when it’s at the cost of empathy.

At a certain level ($10 million?) they stop being a symbiote and becomes a parasite.
Well Zuck is preparing a quarantine compound for himself in Hawaii

As far as internet content goes, hate is winning. All the major social media platforms have been overrun by sexist, racist, LGBTQphobic commentary. And these platforms will simply follow the money, pushing hate content via algorithms as good people leave the platforms.

And these platforms will simply follow the money
This, remember that every single pride sponsorship and rainbow coloured logo was approved by a marketing department after extensive market research deeming it to be profitable
- And only broadcast in subregions of their market where they know it's a good PR move.
This couldn't be further from the truth.

When we start to say "bad things" about the oligarchy watch hoe fast they shut that down

The problem with western oligarchs is that they rarely step foot on public land ....so it's really hard to track their schedules let alone get a shoot shot off.

People are free to out themselves as ignorant on Meta. Technology is getting crazy.

They put Dana White who heads the UFC on the board, all because Zuckerberg did Jujitsu... Jujitsu and the UFC has stange political affiliations to chechen forces Putin sometimes employs.

They're a hyper masculine male traditionalist culture. So it all ties back into that BS.

They call it "Sportswashing" - using Jujitsu to slide extremist politics onto someone. Zuckerberg fell tor it hook line and sinker. Libertarian to pro Russia pipeline. Anti-woke fascism in practice.

As a MMA enjoyer, Dana White being put in charge of anything is fucking scary. He is an extremely evil and ruthless man. He is so open about treating fighters like complete shit saying "its better to keep them hungry because then they are more motivated to preform".
Dana is at the forefront of Saudi sportswashing and pushing right wing culture on young men. He hooked trump up with Nelk and got Trump infront of massive influencers and their audiences.
Hearing Zuck speak longform a few years ago I actually thought he was left leaning and a reasonable guy. But that was bullshit, the guys morals are about as strong as a wet paper bag.
because Zuckerberg did Jujitsu
LMFAO that coordination failure of a leek I have to see that.
I can't believe this exists. Watch carefully how Lex Fridman (yes that one) goes to great lengths to not kill Zuckerberg in training.
As to martial arts in general and assholery, I'll just leave this here.

Billionaires have a mental illness

Zuckerberg has mental illness.

Zuckerberg has a moral defect. Evil is not a medical problem.
- Well, evil is a medical problem for other people, like those with profitably denied insurance claims.

Mark was never a source of good in this world.

I like how he went from the Caesar cut and bland shirt to the style of what current-day 16-20 year old guys are rockin.

And by "like," I mean that I'm glad he still looks uncanny despite how normal his new style is, because he's a POS and nobody should sympathize with him.

Now he just looks like Andy Dick.

I left facebook after years of having meta not do anything about blatant transphobia and ableism that I reported to them. I got a death threat late last year and that was the final straw for me

What I want to know is who thought it was a good idea to give the kid who ate rocks at recess for attention an international platform. Hmm?

Is this a meme I don't know?
Zuck is extraordinarily intelligent. You don't get into Harvard as a non legacy eating rocks.
Nor did anyone give it to him. He took it by cheating the partners that made Facebook grow in it's early years.
- You're correct in the second half though. It doesn't take brains to steal, see November 5 2024.

So does Lemmy.

They always did because their moderators didn’t act upon old rules anyway.

I feel comfortable decreeing conservatives are a mental illness.

“It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,”

I somewhat respect that statement actually.

I mean... We do sometimes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

For example I have ADHD, autism and BPD.

When people talk about "LGBTQ+ people have mental illness" they don't mean any of that.
They mean "being LGBTQ+ is a mental illness, and these people first need to be attempted to be cured, if that fails then need to be removed from society".

Elon Musk is gay!

Fuck off, no he's not, we don't want him either.

I thought it's widely-agreed that gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The debate lies in how to treat it—try to realign the busy with the mind or the mind with the body.

Actually that's a common misconception - while gender dysphoria is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) - it's not actually a mental disorder (similar to how the DSM includes physiological and environmental issues like Insomnia or Social Exclusion) - main reason it's there is for admin purposes and to facilitate treatment access.
However, a condition like body dysmorphia (think Anorexia Nervosa) is considered a mental disorder because the issue is the mind incorrectly perceiving the body - therefore it can be treated using psychotherapy which enables the mind to correctly perceive the body and prevent harm.
People who experience gender dysphoria on the other hand - actually correctly perceive their body (that's where the distress comes from) so psychotherapy doesn't work to alleviate this - as you can't therapy away an accurate perception (think gay conversion therapy)
Which is why after many decades of research the only treatment that's been found to work is aligning the body with the mind - as at that point the mind continues perceiving the body correctly but this time it's congruent with it's mental model which alleviates the distress.
Hope this helps :)
It depends on the "science of the times." Crazy concept, I know.
It's why psychology is considered a "soft science" and doesn't deserve the authority that hard sciences have.
- It's a crazy concept to apply "science of the times" to only psychology, but not every other branch of science and medicine, as there are huge holes in understanding everywhere.
  I have no idea what sciences would be considered "hard" in this definition.

Okay 🤷‍♂️

EDIT They can say whatever they want. But so can you. So where's the problem?

The problem is that people are vulnerable to disinformation and now there is little to no pushback on these platforms.
In a world where people are expert critical thinkers with no biases and perfect rationality it wouldn't matter, but that isn't how people work in the slightest.
- Who gets to decide what's disinformation?
  Once upon a time, scientific consensus classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
  This is why psychology is a soft science and not worthy of the authority afforded to hard sciences.
The problem is that people want to censor what they don't want to see for others.
"If I don't like it, then neither should you."
No, no, no. Some people can say as they choose, some cannot. In any case, we're all forced to listen to it and participate.
- Who's forcing you to read half baked reckons on FB?
There is little to no repercussions for Meta.

Fuck Meta and Zuck. I wish I could stop using WhatsApp, as every other Meta product is out of my devices already.

I wish our government actually regulated these corporations so they are not able to have a tentacle in so many essential technologies.
All of the symptoms of the crushing power of techbro oligarchs are directly tied to failures of govt to regulate.

It's freedom of speech. Being able to say what you want and suffer the consequences of your decisions is what it is all about.

This is a good thing.

Let people say what they want. If you don't like it, you can always ignore them.

I see what you're getting at - if we're gonna allow our citizens freedom of speech, this is part of what it looks like. For the record, these dumb ass takes on my LGBTQ+ peeps do NOT align with my own personal feelings. However, freedom of speech is objectively a good thing.
Problem is that entities like Meta and X are suppressing the voices of people that are making comments against the status quo and challenging the uber rich, and elevating the voices of the bigots.
All that to say I think that's why people are downvoting you, but I agree with you.
That's how disinformation works.
Hard disagree.
If one person's rights negatively affect another persons rights you can't just rule one right to be more important in every situation. There's gotta be more nuance than that.
Me when I like to spread disinformation on the internet

If you don't let them speak up, how are we going to find the racists? They're all old so it's not like they just suddenly appeared when Obama was elected. They've been hiding and hidden. Bring the assholes into the light, and let's get out the dildo of consequence.

You can think trans people are mentally ill without being racist.
- The venn diagram of transphobes and racists is very nearly a circle.

A fairly large percentage of straight people definitely have mental illness. Likely the same ones that will be saying the same thing about gay/trans.