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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by phailhaus on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:00PM (#36699987)
When the account "just reposted stuff" with inflammatory claims about children's hospitals, those hospitals were targeted by a deluge of online harassment and phoned-in threats. [1] If Twitter is the public square, then their account is on a massive soap box with over two million followers. What they say is going to have real-world consequences, and to pretend as if they have no blame is ridiculous.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-t...

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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by cubefox on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:15PM (#36701022)
There were actual cases of hospitals who freely admitted to performing (illegal) gender treatment on minors and hastily changed their websites as they were exposed.
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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by zzzeek on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:37PM (#36701303)
going to call bullshit on that. Share the source of so called "illegal gender treatment". Going to guess it was a hospital that had to quickly change practices due to one of those reactionary laws recently passed in Texas or similar at best. These laws violate people's human rights and should be overturned (and they will be).
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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by phailhaus on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:24PM (#36701127)
Great, so we agree that Libs of TikTok "just reposting stuff" is done to achieve political goals, with success, that would not have happened without the huge spotlight they control. So when they post hateful content targeted at trans people, they have reason to be afraid.
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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by cubefox on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:27PM (#36701166)
> Great, so we agree that Libs of TikTok "just reposting stuff" is done to achieve political goals, with success, that otherwise would not have happened.

Yes? It is perfectly legitimate to "expose" things. Nothing else happened a few years ago when people reposted absurd takes of the most dedicated Trump supporters.

> So when they post hateful content targeted at trans people

What are you talking about? What has exposing things to do with that?

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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by phailhaus on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:29PM (#36701189)
I don't know why you're responding to me then. The post I'm replying to is pretending that "just reposting stuff" is totally harmless and has no real world consequences.
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