Meta’s decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people “mentally ill” has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

  • @[email protected]
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    99 hours ago

    I think you Misspelled the company name, which has been renames to “Maga”. Don’t fact check this please, it’s free speech!!1!

  • @[email protected]
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    Clarification: it’s not Meta’s decision, it’s Mark Zuckerbeachboy’s decision. He’s the one who went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.

    • @[email protected]
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      1912 hours ago

      There will be a day of reckoning when the American reich collapses. Zuckerblingbling will be among the ones on trial.

      • @[email protected]
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        1112 hours ago

        I’ve had the feeling this is all coming to something, I just hope I’m around to see the reckoning.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s been a long time coming.

          I myself first realized we were going down the proverbial slippery slope when Dubya signed the USA Patriot Act into law. And now with Trump v2, we’re entering the truly active, “official”, darkest phase of the American dictatorship. This is America’s 1933 Germany. And if history is anything to go by, it will end in 12 years and it will not end without tears.

          Plus ca change… Just make sure you’re not among the collaborators when it ends.

  • @[email protected]
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    712 hours ago

    Meh if you’re LGBTQIA+ and you work for these giant tech companies you don’t get to feign ignorance and outrage.

    It’s been pretty clear for a while how they feel about your existence.

    Quit and go work for places that actually matter. Sorry the pay won’t be good though.

    • @[email protected]
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      A better suggestion would be to organize and form a union.

      When a company is employing more than 10k people, they are clearly 1. a major source of jobs, and 2. going to find your replacement in a blink while you struggle through countless leetcode interviews.

    • RedSeries (She/Her)
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      1411 hours ago

      What a wild take. Up until now there were at least protections present for the platform. And what’s your message here? “Stifle your career because Zuck is a bigot”? “Accept less pay or shut up and accept abuse”?

      • @[email protected]
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        The message is if you really care about this issue and you work there, quit.

        Zuck isn’t going to back track over this unless a significant portion of his workforce withholds labor.

        There are also so many other places to work that don’t have the same society destroying baggage.

        • RedSeries (She/Her)
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          1311 hours ago

          Some could afford to leave, but we should encourage people to try and change things where they work. Abandoning or avoiding it isn’t the only way. I read your comment to suggest that they shouldn’t complain or try to get the policy changed back. It seems you were suggesting they should leave, even if they can’t get an equivalent job. Does that sound right?

          • @[email protected]
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            39 hours ago

            Most of the technical staff isn’t getting ahead at Meta. Any engineer that stays is saying it’s okay to call LGBTQIA+ mentally ill. There are a few top engineers at the absolute pinnacle of their specialization in R&D I wouldn’t apply that to; they have to decide if their science is more important than common human decency.

            For non-technical staff, the question is a lot harder. Recruiters, for example, can have a much easier life at Meta than elsewhere. Operations is another area where you can get way better benefits. Everyone has a price on their morals and we can’t judge someone taking that shot too much.

            Here’s a different question: at what point do you think a company has gone too far? Enron? SAC Capital? The Weinstein Company? None of these places said LGBTQIA+ was a mental illness; none of them are places I would work. Meta has already actively enabled genocide (if you don’t believe in Uyghurs or Tibet, Myanmar was very explicit). They have actively built policies to exploit not just adults but children too while baking that into their ethos. Now it’s okay to say my gay peers are suffering from a mental illness. Is there a line too far?

    • @BigBenis
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      I work in tech and I’ve sworn off ever working for a company like Meta or Amazon. Not to say there aren’t problems in every corner of the industry but there’s a line I don’t cross.

  • @kitnaht
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    Fire them. Too much agenda pushing in the community. We don’t need “representation” around every corner.

    • @WoodScientist
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      And yet, if you post, “all Christians are mentally ill for believing in an invisible man in the sky,” you’ll be censored for disparaging religious groups. They didn’t open the floodgates and say, “you can call anyone you want mentally ill.” They only said, “you can specifically call LGBT people mentally ill.”

    • @dexa_scantron
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      2013 hours ago

      This isn’t about representation. It’s about preventing harassment and bullying on the platform. Meta has decided that they’re just going to let LGBT people be harassed.

    • @rockSlayer
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      What’s wrong with all people being represented everywhere?