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Your response doesn't address my initial point. Again, don't make that false equivalence.

I'm sure I am speaking to the choir here, but body dismorphia is the mental illness here, and transgenderism is the cure.

Pre-transition transgender people are mentally ill, due to the emotional pain that comes from being trapped in a body that they don't feel represents themselves. The cure for that illness is, of course, transitioning into the gender that makes them feel like themselves. So, a fully transitioned transgender person is no longer mentally ill, at least from body dismorphia.

Therefore, people who are against things like puberty blockers and HRT are literally trying to keep mentally ill people from getting better. I am okay with body dismorphia being referred to as a mental illness, in accordance with medical science. The fact that it is a mental illness shows the cruelness of the people fighting against the literal cure for it.

However, I am sure Facebook is going to just let anyone refer to perfectly happy and fully-transition transgendered people as mentally ill, which is most definitely not true, and shouldn't be allowed.

Obligatory Fuck Zuck.

The factuality of this is irrelevant as 99% of the time this will be used as a weapon to bully people. No one on facebook talks about metaphysics. Does anyone really think that there are meta discussions about the origins "of the gay" and what it means in our collective society?

Americans really fucked the world with their elections this year and it's just the beginning.

Based on what I've seen on the platform I didn't realize they even had that rule in the first place

You can now refer to women as property on Facebook and they are A-OK with that! But you will, and it has happened to me, catch an instant ban if you say all men are trash.

I stopped letting Meta take my attention once they started making my feed fill itself with "reccomended" "you might like" pages and profiles that I at no point ever clicked on or searched for.

before, my feed was exclusively my friends content, and pages I followed.

now, they fill the gaps with evangelicals, gambling, and idiots posting chinese and russian war propaganda.

yup, get the fuck out. im done.

Presumably they'll roll back their censorship of Palestinian journalists now they love free speech so much.

“It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.

This is the same Joel Kaplan that participated in the brooks brothers riot stopping the recount of the ballots during the bush v gore election in 2000 where the republicans stole the election forever changing the course of American history.

He praised X, a competitor, in his video announcement. I guess Musk was right. "Zuck is a cuck."

People need to get a grip. This really feels like mass psychosis.

1. Walk into Nazi bar.
2. Pay dues to be a member (consume advertising, provide personal data).
3. Be astonished at the fascist rhetoric of the Nazi bar!

If it were possible it would be fascinating to study the brains of people who do this. Is it old scar tissue from physical blows? Lesions from infections or illness? Just too much drugs and alcohol? Perhaps it's a vascular issue from failing organs and too much salt? Food dye, radiation, lead?

“getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,”

Yet when my mom tried to post about a museum visit, Facebook wouldn't let her because it contained the word "Lenin". Interesting.

Being an executive of Meta who succumb to conservashit rhetoric is a mental ilness.

I'll bite. Meta, obviously, never actually cared about free speech. Zuckerberg also said that they are about to flood the platforms with AI bots to increase engagement. I'd say getting rid of fact checkers is only to avoid having their own bots automatically brought down by their own moderation. The rest is a façade

META is failing. Mark is bending the knee because that's his only move.

I'm trans. I do have mental illness. It's because society keeps sending me signals that I shouldn't exist.

Religion is a mental illness.

I’ve always seen people say and post this. The fact checking was selectively enforced. Better to have none than a half assed attempt

Meta sucks and allowing accusations of mental illness is shitty.

That said, "allegations of abnormality" and "weird" are hard to take issue with. There is nothing at all wrong with being gay or trans, but by the numbers it is absolutely "weird" and "abnormal". This is exactly what the word "queer" means, by definition.

Accusing of mental illness is reproachable, but weird and abnormal are both accurate. You no what else is abnormal? Being exceptional. These are not bad conditions to find yourself in, but neither are they "normal" by population.

Facebook is a shitty place to be. In related "no shit, sherlock" news, the sun is still hot.

Reminder to get off Facebook and Instagram

This isn't the first time they've pulled stuff like this nor will it be the last

People need to stop using Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and Instagram.

Let’s be honest, they already allow rampant, dangerous misinformation, bullying, and hate speech. They’re just being a little more honest about it, now.