Discord has expanded its Hateful Conduct Policy to explicitly include prohibitions against misgendering and deadnaming in a policy update. Accompanying this policy update, Discord has also implemented a comprehensive warning system to enforce these guidelines effectively.
Please detail to me how discord, a private company, banning people who intentionally misgender or dead name others is a violation or the first amendment right in the United States?
It doesn’t say ‘intentionally’ as you’ve pointed out, but the wording is clear and pretty reinforced throughout the article, just below the following quote in the article is another 3 ‘targeted’ explanations:
“The update explicitly addresses behaviors considered violations of its hate speech policy, including targeted misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.”
You can’t say bomb in an airplane. You can’t shout fire in a building. You can’t shout removed in a Walmart. No one’s saying you can’t THINK whatever you feel like and SAY whatever you want in your own spaces, but you don’t own discord or the plane or the building or the Walmart so you gotta follow other people’s rules. Woe is you
Wait - I’m out of the loop. What the heck happened at Walmart?
Turns out the homophobic slur that shares similarities to British cigarettes is banned from use here or on the client side, not sure which. Which, I’m fine with, just using it to make a point on what “censorship” looks like.
WHY IS LEMMY OPPRESSING THOSE OF US WHO LIKE OUR BUNDLES OF STICKS?