For the record, as a resident of Tennessee, I hate this fucking state.
For the record, as a resident of Tennessee, I hate this fucking state.
YouTube's hold on Google News is highly disproportionate. Especially given that social media and video content were supposed to be adjunct to print journalism. By sheer numbers, these data suggest it takes up a greater proportion than all other outlets.
Fascinatinlgly, different keywords showed variations in the behavior of users with how they engaged with the platform. You can start to see a behavioral difference based on valence and year.
https://jessk.org/blog/how-youtube-feeds-the-anti-trans-machine
#DataViz #disinformation #disinfo #transphobia #anitrans #trans #transgender #news #sociology
To TERF "protecting" women:
"Missouri poll finds ban on transgender care boosts support for outlawing abortion
Overwhelming support for banning gender transition treatments for minors benefits the proposal that would make abortion illegal, the St. Louis University/YouGov poll shows"
#abortion #trans #lgbtq #health #feminism #terf #transphobia #women #vote
Oh yes, all those HRT overdoses.
I look forward to seeing what pretext they come up with to give #Streeting the opportunity to ban it.
Informed consent now!
So in the last few years there’s been a thing in the #UK where people have insisted their #islamophobia #homophobia and #transphobia are protected by the Equality Act as deeply held personal beliefs, and they’ve repeatedly won in court.
It’s just a weird flex. Ok yes, you have the human right to think *whatever* you want and be awful to people. But maybe don’t?
As a self determining free human you also have the right to roll in your own shit but no one does that and these things stink worse.

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
Transphobes in Britain constantly talk about the need to protect women/women’s spaces from men; this comes up over and over again, and it almost gives the transphobia we see in Britain a kind of faux-progressive/feminist look.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-irony-of-transphobia-5731af590491?sk=48d689766316bd21ec6a440b3b7f0b23