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Supervigtigt indlæg af Rosa Lund fra Enhedslisten om #hatespeech på internettet

Hadefulde kommentarer betød, at jeg måtte trække mig som udlændingeordfører | Information

information.dk/debat/2025/03/h

> Mit kommentarspor på Facebook er det mest hadefulde i dansk politik. Efter fem år med had og trusler måtte jeg ty til selvcensur. Det er ikke bare et personligt anliggende, men et alvorligt demokratisk problem

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Even more of #JDPritzker 's eloquent takedown of Trump is at 5:48 in:

"The root that tears apart your house's foundation begins as a seed– a seed of distrust, and hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe, a lifetime ago, didn't arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about… inflation, and looking for someone to blame.

I'm watching with a foreboding dread at what is happening with our country, right now. A President who watches a plane go down in the Potomac, and announces without facts or findings, that a diversity hire is to blame for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who sued Starbucks, arguing that consumers pay too much for their coffee, because the batistas are too female… and non-white.

The #authoritarian playbook is laid bare here. They point to a group of people who don't look like you, and tell you to blame *them* for your problems..." 🧵 3/4

#SocialMedia #Twitter #HateSpeech

'A new analysis has found that weekly rates of hate speech on the social media platform X rose about 50% in the months after its purchase in October 2022 by Elon Musk, and that the number of bots and bot-like accounts did not decrease, despite Musk’s earlier pledge to reduce bot activity.'

news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/s

Berkeley News · Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X - Berkeley NewsThe new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.

The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate'

1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher;
2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent;
3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts

#democracy #hatespeech

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

journals.plos.orgX under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activityNumerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite Musk’s pledge to “defeat the spam bots,” a recent study reported no substantial change in the concentration of inauthentic accounts. However, it is not known whether any of these trends endured. We address this by examining material posted on X from the beginning of 2022 through June 2023, the period that includes Musk’s full tenure as CEO. We find that the increase in hate speech just before Musk bought X persisted until at least May of 2023, with the weekly rate of hate speech being approximately 50% higher than the months preceding his purchase, although this increase cannot be directly attributed to any policy at X. The increase is seen across multiple dimensions of hate, including racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Moreover, there is a doubling of hate post “likes,” indicating increased engagement with hate posts. In addition to measuring hate speech, we also measure the presence of inauthentic accounts on the platform; these accounts are often used in spam and malicious information campaigns. We find no reduction (and a possible increase) in activity by these users after Musk purchased X, which could point to further negative outcomes, such as the potential for scams, interference in elections, or harm to public health campaigns. Overall, the long-term increase in hate speech, and the prevalence of potentially inauthentic accounts, are concerning, as these factors can undermine safe and democratic online environments, and increase the risk of offline harms.

Now this is the shit that really makes my blood boil. Claiming that gay people are creating "negative stigma" on themselves by being too openly gay. That's not a stigma, IT'S CALLED HATE SPEECH!

And the only person pushing "pronouns" on you is your grade school English teacher.

"I understand why the vice president feels so strongly that he has to defend Musks’s staffer against what he perceives to be a liberal onslaught. Over the past decade or so, so many people have lost their livelihoods as a consequence of liberal political correctness that often views people as disposable if they happen to utter the wrong thought. Not only is this inhumane, it undermines progressive values. Progressives are supposed to value compassion and mercy, not serve as judge, jury, and executioners for WrongThink.

But I think Vance is making a mistake here by being so defensive of conservatives without taking into account how the rest of the country feels. Just look at the vote total in places like Irving, Texas, or Edison, New Jersey. A lot of Indian Americans swung towards Trump-Vance in this recent election. What those people want to hear is not just a defense of classical liberalism or mercy towards racist posters.

They also want to hear that the Trump administration will not be judging you by the color of your skin or your ancestry or your faith. Vance could’ve said all that he said against firing people over social media posts while also rising to the defense of Indians, Arabs, Jews, and others that Elez had insulted."

theamericansaga.com/p/should-p

The American Saga · Should People Be Fired for Social Media Posts? What JD Vance Gets Right and Wrong.By Zaid Jilani

Your favorite opinion leaders have migrated to Bluesky rather than Mastodon, because they "cannot gain the reach and power there without a reinforcing algorithm"

Via Mstdn @ErikUden

mastodon.de/@ErikUden/11395591

MastodonDEErik Uden 🍑 (@ErikUden@mastodon.de)I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as ***Bluesky*** :Bluesky:, is in fact, **Blockchain / VC**, or as I've recently taken to calling it, **Blockchain + VC**. ## Why Bluesky is not decentralized: - [How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really?](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/) by @cwebber@social.coop </br> - [An outage that shuts down a “decentralized” network?](https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474) by @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ## Why Bluesky doesn't let itself be self-hosted: - [Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization](https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/) by @cwebber@social.coop <sup>...and fool all those who think they are now really independent with their *personal data server* container</sup> ## Is Bluesky Web3 and Will Add Cryptocurrency? - [All Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Bluesky](https://filmmakermagazine.com/128200-joanne-mcneil-bluesky/) by @jomc@friend.camp ## Bluesky doesn't moderate Queerphobia and Trans-Hate to appeal to a MAGA-Government: - [Is Bluesky obeying in advance?](https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113664405608317001) by @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ## Ties to MAGA, Russia, etc.: - [Important Thread about Bluesky funding and Origins](https://toad.social/@davetroy/113476788536250587) by @davetroy@toad.social ## Payment service and Advertising: - [Bluesky is “prioritizing” building its own payment platform](https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/19/24325368/bluesky-is-prioritizing-building-its-own-payment-platform) by @theverge@flipboard.com The mainstream, which is currently migrating from FaXistan to Bluesky, unfortunately has no aim and trots along with the opinion leaders who have migrated there and not to Mastodon, because they quickly realized that they cannot gain the reach and power there without a reinforcing algorithm as on Xcrement. We should inform and educate about the question of which network to use, especially because of these still existing fundamental differences between Mastodon and Bluesky.

Another edit: Thank you to those who signed and shared. There are now over 47,700 signatures that Good Law Project are going to personally hand in to OfCom on Monday morning!

People in the UK, would you sign a petition to OfCom, sponsored by the Good Law Project, please?

GB News is spreading hate speech and homophobia, using the old lie that homosexual = child abuser.

You don't need to donate or be a Good Law Project donor, they just want more numbers of people who object to unchallenged lies on TV.

Please boost if you would.
Add tags if you think they would help.

action.goodlawproject.org/ofco

Good Law ProjectOfcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January, Josh Howie, one of their presenters, repeated a dangerous homophobic slur that links the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. You can watch the video here. It’s clearly illegal to stir up hatred by broadcasting a poisonous myth. Like GB News, Howie thinks he’s above the law. But he’s wrong. And we’re going to show him how.
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As I mentioned in another post, Facebook provided an example, where someone claimed George Washington kept a diary, claiming he wanted to be king, and according to Facebook, I would need to leave that post "as is" -- Facts be damned.

So when asked, what about people who deny the Holocaust? I do not know. I would call that hate speech, but Facebook may call that an opinion or freedom of speech.

Personally, I will still remove such post. I guess I will see what happens when I do.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads #Facts #HateSpeech

❓ Was sind die Änderungen bei Meta? Was bedeutet das für Kinder und Jugendliche in der EU, die insbesondere Social-Media-Plattformen wie Instagram nutzen?

▶️ Kinder und Jugendliche sind unter anderen jetzt noch stärker gefährdet, mit Hassrede konfrontiert zu werden.

📌 In der EU gilt der Digital Services Act #DSA: DSA verpflichtet Anbieter digitaler Dienste, Nutzende vor illegalen Inhalten wie Desinformation und Hassrede zu schützen.

Case in point why people say acab. Spouting globally recognized hate speech, the type which instigates violent hate crimes against queer folk, then justifying it by saying, "I'm a cop, so I know biological science better than anyone".

Just like how chiropractors suddenly labeled themselves the leading experts on viral infections and epidemics in 2020.

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@Ruth_Mottram @european_alternatives

#QuitMeta #facebook #threads #instagram #WhatsApp

Just ignore #Musk and #Zuckerberg . Don't participate in printing their currency - attention! Don't retweet, retoot, repost, rewhatever! Don't link anything to #xitter or #facebook ! Put their verbal #pollution and their playgrounds for #hatespeech where they belong - in the huge dumpster behind the veil of oblivion. 🤡

@edri nails it:
"For example, Meta now allows its users to refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it’.” It now allows users to verbally attack LGBTQ+ people by stigmatising them as “abnormal” or “mentally ill,” and said that it would generally limit moderation. As targeting people based on their appearance, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, gender identity or sexual orientation, among others, are no longer prohibited, Meta’s new policy systematically legitimises and normalises the dehumanisation of people in the guise of ‘free speech’."

We should not call these platforms "social" media anymore. There is nothing social about them anymore...

edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-a

European Digital Rights (EDRi)Meta and X are going rogue. Here is what Europe should do now. - European Digital Rights (EDRi)To solve the core problem, we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.