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Just want to note that unfettered hate speech is not even allowed on Twitter/X, their team removes it if it violates their guidelines (help.x.com/en/rules-and…). Very safe to assume Facebook will still do the same. It really appears to me they are simply allowing discussion around a bunch of topics some people don't like. They even noted…
Just want to note that unfettered hate speech is not even allowed on Twitter/X, their team removes it if it violates their guidelines (https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-conduct-policy). Very safe to assume Facebook will still do the same. It really appears to me they are simply allowing discussion around a bunch of topics some people don't like. They even noted they are doubling down on removing grifters, spammers, predators etc which these resources should be devoted to.
Meta changed their hate speech guidelines for the worse. See Wired's article https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/. One example: Under the old policy, users were prohibited from referring to women as "household objects or property.” That part of the former policy is now crossed out, so we can assume that the objectification of women is now fair game.
Of course, I'm not going to defend that. But I wonder to what extent certain policies like this would change much, were people really chomping at the bit to say certain things like this? Anyone who would harass you before you likely already blocked or muted.
It's a $1.5T company and I don't think they make these decisions lately. The tech press foams at the mouth to write negative stories here about any policy decisions that happen and will bias to be negative before things even occur. Of course, I personally bias to free speech (not to harass people, just to not shrink the spectrum of our ideas). That's probably why we post more here and not there, and with this there is very little bad behavior. Appreciate the thoughts.