Biggest bag fumble in tech history. All they had to do was listen to trans people.
I’ll never get over how, for many centrists, certain bigotry is disgusting but transphobia is accepted and fine.
Meanwhile the hexbear board of directors
I 100% understand if nobody wants to rehash it, but as someone that doesn’t use Bluesky, are there any synopses of what went down?
PS death to transphobes.
Jesse Singal joined Bluesky with the expressed intent to bring his Xitter followers and harass the trans population there. When the Bluesky users asked his account to be suspended or banned for their safety, the Bluesky Trust&Safety team basically said he had done nothing explicitly against guidelines on the site and that they would not do so. Even when shown direct evidence of him publishing medical records on the site without the patients’ permission. Bluesky T&S basically nuked the goodwill they had been cultivating among marginalized communities.
publishing medical records on the site without the patients’ permission.
Please tell me there’s a HIPAA lawsuit incoming. That shit has fines in the millions of dollars and like 10 year prison sentences for disclosing patient information with malicious intent.
He’s claiming to have been given the records by the doctor because he is a “journalist” and they support his claim that pedophelia isn’t harmful to the kids, but gender affirming care is. Anyone whose data he may be sharing will have to prove harm from this in order to sue. It’s really f’ed up.
it really seems that a tactic that western liberals in positions of power love to do when running apologetics for murderers and attempted murderers is to ignore hard facts and reality when there is blatant evidence of malicious intent
then, with the same deluded thinking, twist and turn reality to invent evidence of wrongdoing when there are people from a marginalized group they want to harm
an example of this would be how mr. bonerelli can win the gold medal of mental gymnastics and evil simultaneously by saying the dozens of people murdered in cold blood by the IDF were paid to die by Kkhaaamas because it would make pissrael look bad… while also saying there is no evidence for systemic genocidal intent from pissrael
For those not on Bluesky, I would also like to point out that we basically spent the first year of that website’s existence begging for a real Trust & Safety team, for a whole lot of reasons and incidents that occurred before there was one. And when Jay (CEO of Bluesky) finally hired one, she hired Aaron Rodericks to lead Trust & Safety. The Aaron Rodericks from Twitter’s “Trust” & “Safety.” Aaron Rodericks immediately began his job posting about how he cares way more about tone and manners than actual content of a message. So basically, as long as your transphobia and bigotry and racism and white supremacy is stated in a polite manner, it’s cool with him. But if you get offended by the transphobia etc and speak up for yourself, YOU are getting banned. Also, since the Jesse Singal thing started, he has made it very clear he gives exactly zero fucks what Jesse Singal does.
No one should trust for-profit social media.
