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Ben Werdmuller

@ben@werd.social · 2 weeks ago

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Open Terms Archive

@opentermsarchive@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

🏳️‍⚧️ LinkedIn removes #HateSpeech protections for #transgender individuals

@opentermsarchive detected on July 29th that LinkedIn removed transgender-related protections from its policy on hateful and derogatory content. The platform no longer lists “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as examples of prohibited conduct.
👉 Full memo and sources: https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/
🇫🇷 Memo in French: https://opentermsarchive.org/fr/memos/linkedin-retire-des-protections-contre-les-discours-de-haine-envers-les-personnes-transgenres/
#TermsSpotting #TrustAndSafety #LGBTQ #ContentModeration #transrights

Hate speech, symbols, and groups are prohibited on LinkedIn. We remove content that attacks, denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred, violence, prejudicial or discriminatory action against individuals or groups because of their actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or disability status.

Examples of hateful and derogatory content

Slurs and pejoratives used to demean others on the basis of their inherent traits

Promoting or expressing support for hate groups or ideology via symbol or otherwise

Expressions of disgust towards or superiority over people or groups on the basis of inherent traits

REMOVE: Misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals — Hate speech, symbols, and groups are prohibited on LinkedIn. We remove content that attacks, denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred, violence, prejudicial or discriminatory action against individuals or groups because of their actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or disability status. Examples of hateful and derogatory content Slurs and pejoratives used to demean others on the basis of their inherent traits Promoting or expressing support for hate groups or ideology via symbol or otherwise Expressions of disgust towards or superiority over people or groups on the basis of inherent traits REMOVE: Misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io · last month

A plain a simple fact is that we can already prevent the distribution of terroristic or violent extremist content (TVEC) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without the need for invading everyone's privacy.

Why? Because most of this stuff is shared publicly on large social media platforms.

There's a bunch that does go through apps like telegram, but it doesn't happen in end-to-end encrypted places typically. It happens in public chats that telegram can and should moderate.

Our problems with combating CSAM and TVEC in the EU are not solved by scanning everyone's devices for potentially harmful material, in fact, that creates a *way* larger problem.

Our problems are that we don't have reporting hotlines for ESPs (electronic service providers) to actually report illegal conduct on their platforms across the EU. We have nothing like NCMEC here that coordinates reports of content with law enforcement & distributes hashes of known harmful content.

You report CSAM in the EU, and most likely that report goes to NCMEC in the US because we simply don't have the institutional organisations to handle it.

So given the lack of reporting and response management hotlines, what do you think is going to happen when you mandate scanning of private content on everyone's devices and the sheer number of false positives that's going to generate? The already barely working system is going to completely collapse.

Chat Control will not protect kids, it won't prevent the distribution of TVEC or CSAM, it will just overburden an already broken and fragmented system. We already can't handle the basics of reporting harmful content, let alone all the AI generated CSAM and TVEC content.

Anyone who thinks Chat Control is the answer is a fool with authoritarian leanings.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

#FightChatControl #chatcontrol #TrustAndSafety #EU

jaz :twt: :wales_flag: boosted

Lorry

@lorry@infosec.exchange · last month

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

Lorry

@lorry@infosec.exchange · last month

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

Open Terms Archive

@opentermsarchive@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

🏳️‍⚧️ LinkedIn removes #HateSpeech protections for #transgender individuals

Neil Brown boosted

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

Mastodon Moderators: If you've had this verification scam/spam happening from accounts on your server, would you mind sharing with me privately the IP address and other details of the account?

I'm trying to compile information on this attack (we don't have any of this data from Hachyderm, because we've approval based registrations due to LLM spam)

I've been able to pull together information on the different domains and text of the spam messages being used, but not much in the way of account details.

(Yes, this data is PII, and I promise to handle it responsibly)

#moderation #trustandsafety

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

Mastodon Moderators: If you've had this verification scam/spam happening from accounts on your server, would you mind sharing with me privately the IP address and other details of the account?

I'm trying to compile information on this attack (we don't have any of this data from Hachyderm, because we've approval based registrations due to LLM spam)

I've been able to pull together information on the different domains and text of the spam messages being used, but not much in the way of account details.

(Yes, this data is PII, and I promise to handle it responsibly)

#moderation #trustandsafety