GrayGooGirl 🏳️‍🌈Apr 3, 2023

Part of this article covers how Twitter is essentially deboosting tweets and hiding DMs when someone uses the word trans, transgender, queer, gay, lesbian, and bisexual. Again, this is eliminationist. By making even the most basic words to describe who we are into some kind of taboo naughty word bullshit, they seek to make even an acknowledgement of our existence controversial.

I'm not going to CW this, allies needs to see it and feel some fucking discomfort.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/03/elon-musks-twitter-free-speech-checkmarks-ranking?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=twitter

At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free

Capricious rule changes and fingers on the scales mark the platform's new regime.

Axios
Show threadMoved to TechHub.SocialApr 4, 2023

@graygoogirl I mostly agree with the sentiment, but as a wise person said:

CWs are about consent, not censorship.
If you're not using CWs for a reason like this, you're doing it wrong.

Show threadGrayGooGirl 🏳️‍🌈
@halotroop2288
I chose not to CW this because I'm tired of cis people ignoring anything they see with the transphobia CW. And yes, it is a form of self-censorship. The fact is this post wouldn't be doing numbers if it was CW'd.
Apr 4, 2023 at 11:44amFedilab
Show threadpiegamesApr 4, 2023
@graygoogirl @halotroop2288 So you're accepting hurting vulnerable people as a collateral damage, just for "doing numbers"? Fuck you hard
Show threadRev. Lunar 🜏Ⓐ🖤Apr 5, 2023
@piegames As an end user can set filters for things you want content warned and it'll automagically add a content warning. You're literally complaining about something that isn't an issue.
@graygoogirl @halotroop2288
Show threadundead enby of the apocalypseApr 5, 2023
@halotroop2288 @graygoogirl I personally have not boosted this because it lacks a cw. Do you really think you’re going to be more likely to “make numbers” this way? And either way, the fact that you don’t seem to care about the fact that you’re hurting queer people by deliberately posting this without a cw shows that you really didn’t think this through.
Show threadGrayGooGirl 🏳️‍🌈Apr 5, 2023
@enby_of_the_apocalypse
If that is what you took away from my refusal to self-censor harm to my community, then I have nothing more to say to you. Good bye.
@halotroop2288