r/technology Jan 09 '25

Social Media ‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes. Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/
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u/Whole_Ad_7466 Jan 09 '25

Where is this text? I can’t find it.

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u/Robert_Balboa Jan 10 '25 edited Jan 10 '25

Scroll down to tier 2 under do not post. They put in exemptions for targeting LGBTQ people and women weirdly enough.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

Social exclusion, which means things like denying access to spaces (physical and online) and social services, except for sex or gender-based exclusion from spaces commonly limited by sex or gender, such as restrooms, sports and sports leagues, health and support groups, and specific schools.

Economic exclusion, which means denying access to economic entitlements and limiting participation in the labor market. We do allow content arguing for gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.

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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos Jan 10 '25

You cut out important context, which precedes that.

Do not post:

Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) (in written or visual form) with:

Insults, including those about:

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations...

So putting that altogether with some bold emphasis added, you get "Do not post content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) with insults including those about mental characteristics.

Protected characteristics are defined above as

race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, and serious disease.

So help me out here on where you're getting that "its not ok to call conservatives mentally ill"

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u/Whole_Ad_7466 Jan 10 '25

Thanks. How terrifying.

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u/Adorable_Raccoon Jan 10 '25

If you hit ctrl + F on your keyboard the find function will come up and you can search for specific words on any page.