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What do you mean "now?" I've been seeing people say that for years.
Yup, and if you reported it as hate speech they'd review it and say it doesn't go against community guidelines.
And then YOU get banned for “abusing the report feature”.
Reported a blatantly bigoted post saying that all gays should be burnt alive and I got a 30 day account suspension.
It's just they're updating their terms now that Trump is in power. Hate started to rise since the beginning of GenAI on the platform, I highly suspect due to the backlash from socially progressive people against it, and techbros didn't appreciate that. They're going mask off now after the elections.
Yeah the left wants things that actually hinder the oligarchs, the right wants to complain about them but will settle for people they don't like being hurt. Tech companies understand that.
There's also the fact that the bay area has spent quite a while having the sort of people who love to treat equal rights as a thought exercise