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"LinkedIn, the popular professional networking platform, has quietly stripped
explicit protections for transgender and nonwhite users from its
English-language hate speech rules, repeating a playbook now familiar to LGBTQ+
advocates tracking the rollback of content safeguards across major social media
platforms.
The changes, first flagged by the nonprofit Open Terms Archive and
independently confirmed by
The Advocate, involve edits to LinkedIn’s
Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory
Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections. In both, references to
protections for transgender people and people of color were either weakened or
removed entirely.
Before Monday, the site’s “Hateful and Derogatory Content” page included a line
explicitly prohibiting the “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender
individuals” as an example of hate speech. That language has now been deleted.
The same page still states that LinkedIn prohibits content that “attacks,
denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred” against
individuals based on characteristics including gender identity and race. But
misgendering and deadnaming, terms that refer to deliberately using the wrong
name or pronouns for a transgender person, are no longer explicitly prohibited.
The company also edited its “Harassment and Abusive Content” section. In the
previous version, LinkedIn made clear that “content that negatively targets
others on the basis of inherent traits, like race or gender identity,” would be
enforced under its hate speech rules. That language has now been changed to
exclude those specific attributes, referencing only “inherent traits” without
further definition. The page still prohibits behaviors such as doxxing,
trolling, and comparing people to hate groups, and includes a new reference to
“perceived gender” in the context of disparaging appearance, but makes no
mention of transgender identity or expression."
Via Janet Logan.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
