“Gender” means nothing without context. By a MAGAs definition of gender this policy doesn’t protect trans people, for example. We don’t know how this rule will be interpreted in practice. Even if you don’t consider the intent behind making this change, this is objectively a weaker guarantee of protection than what we had with “gender identity and expression”.
Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
While I hate Google, this seems like one of those much ados over nothing. They specifically mention ‘sex, gender, or sexual orientation’, which to most reasonable people would cover gender identity.
patatahooligan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is not a legal contract, it’s a general guideline for users about what is or isn’t acceptable. The intent and spirit of the terms are clear, the only question is whether Google will enforce them not. If the enforcement is crappy, like what Facebook is famous for, it doesn’t matter a damn what exact terminology they use in the guidelines.
gamer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What matters is how this affects enforcement.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t. It’s not like this page gets used internally. They have their own internal guidelines for that.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You still think things are run by reasonable people?!
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, but I think most of the people on Lemmy should know better than that.
Looks at Hexbear, .ml, and to some extent Blahaj
Oh, who am I kidding.
Comtief@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah its quite echo chambery here