“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 1 month 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 1 month ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
What matters is how this affects enforcement.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It doesn’t. It’s not like this page gets used internally. They have their own internal guidelines for that.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You still think things are run by reasonable people?!
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Yeah its quite echo chambery here