Yeah, it keeps getting me that laws like this won’t even necessarily target transsexual individuals. Instead they’ll target people who bigots think look transsexual, for however the informant in question wishes to define that phrase.

I’m so glad I live in SF, because I am a very very butch woman, and I am constantly worried that “concerned citizens” might see me in a ladies room and flip out on my ass. I think I can cross off the entirety of the deep south off of any future travel itineraries.

I’m assuming she means a legal obligation, and such a legal obligation would violate freedom of speech.

I actually think she is simply stating that Reddit shouldn’t *promote* hateful subs, not take them down.

Two things to help clarify for you:

I actually read that as a moral obligation. Reddit likes to market itself as a positive force in society via its various community service projects, but by allowing those subreddits to exist, they make society worse.

A little surprising to see The Red Pill promoted, because they have long been known as proponents of misogyny, rape, and homophobia.

Freedom of speech means that the government can’t imprison you for your opinions. It has nothing to do with the discourse that companies choose to allow on their social media websites.

An example is the TV trope of the “doofus dad” in commercials and TV shows.”

Freedom of expression is only protection from the gov’t. If Reddit wanted to ban all mentions of the color red they could and there wouldn’t be anything we could do about it beyond complain or leave.

I remember when the vaccines cause autism bullshit started and my grandfather, who himself had polio as a child, asked my parents what autism was. They explained that it was when really smart kids had trouble with social skills and fitting in (it was the early 2000s in the Midwest, we weren’t exactly clinical in our…

1) there are kids who never got vaccines who have autism. 2) vaccines have saved literally MILLIONS of f*cking lives. per the WHO (I know, they’re probably in the pocket of “Big Pharma”, right?), about 400 kids per day die from measles. a 100% preventable disease. 3) shove that “believing white men” sh*t where the sun…

I mean, I generally agree with you though I think (as a fellow autistic person who isn’t that severe and made it until adulthood to get my correct diagnosis) that autism can easily be a disability for people depending on the severity and what they want (ie if they really want to be social or have a more social job or…

Your child did not desend into autism. Stop it, seriously, your child is more than just a dx. To treat autism in such a way is degrading and wrong. Your child had autism from birth. That’s how autism works. Around the time children get their vaccinations is about the time they start missing milestones a hallmark of…

Aluminum is the most abundant element on earth. It’s in the soil, in the air, in the water, in any veg you eat.

“Descend into autism.” Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. FUCK. YOU.

Agreed. Not every conversation should have two sides.

It’s ridiculous and infuriating. Look, it’s a paleontologist and a “The Flintstones was a documentary” guy arguing over the fossil record and evolution! Fairness! Balance!

The guy that runs Fark, wrote a book called; It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News. It includes a chapter titled, “Equal Time for Nutjobs,” about how the media likes to give the opposite side of a story, even when it’s proven to be untrue for “the conversation,” when really they’re…

Well, good. Wakefield can go peddle his double-down propaganda piece on fringe cruises and to the tinfoil-hat crowd. The Tribeca Film Festival risked their reputation screening this dreck, and it seems that finally sank in.