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Elon Musk’s Twitter Ends Ban on ‘Misgendering’
Breitbart ^ | April 20, 2023 | Allum Bokhari

Posted on 04/20/2023 11:02:51 AM PDT by Morgana

Twitter appears to have removed its ban on using the former names of transgender people. Called “deadnaming” by transgender activists, it was banned in the pre-Musk era, when Twitter’s woke censorship regime was at its height.

The former policy, which has now been removed, banned “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” It came amid a wider rollback of Twitter’s censorship policies, including the greater use of labeling vs. outright removal of “hateful” tweets.

But it was the removal of the “deadnaming” policy that led to howls of outrage from the woke left.

The president of the leftist LGBT advocacy group GLAAD said it was the “latest example of just how unsafe the company is for users and advertisers alike.”

The reference to advertisers is another sign that the left’s longstanding tactic of using the threat of reduced ad revenue to pressure social media companies for censorship.

While it was in force, Twitter’s ban on “misgendering” led to some high profile acts of censorship.

One, a permanent ban of Canadian feminist and blogger Meghan Murphy, led to a lawsuit against Twitter over censorship. Murphy was banned for referring to “Jessica” Yaniv, the infamous Canadian trans activist and troll, by his real name of Jonathan.

The prominent anti-woke psychologist and author Jordan Peterson also faced a lengthy ban from Twitter last year after he referred to Hollywood celebrity “Elliott” Page by her real name of “Ellen.”

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: deadnaming; transagenda; twitter
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1 posted on 04/20/2023 11:02:51 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

‘Misgendering’ is what trannies WANT you to do. We just truegender them.


2 posted on 04/20/2023 11:06:01 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Morgana

He fired 80 percent of Twitter’s employees.


3 posted on 04/20/2023 11:06:13 AM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Morgana

Made up words for imaginary problems.


4 posted on 04/20/2023 11:06:56 AM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate an reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Morgana
Truth was unbanned.
5 posted on 04/20/2023 11:07:15 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Morgana

“Misgendering” is an odd term to describe being truthful a out whether the person is a man or a woman.


6 posted on 04/20/2023 11:08:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: libh8er

Exactly! Just because they are crazy doesn’t mean we have either honor or participate in their crazy.

Not long ago the Prime Minister of the UK made news for simply agreeing that women didn’t have penises.

When knowing that women don’t have male genitals puts you in the news you are living in crazytown.


7 posted on 04/20/2023 11:10:04 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Morgana

I’d say it was insanity to pay any attention to the howls of people who have mental problems, but I’ve realized what’s going on here. This is bread and circuses. The majority of Americans are no longer able to think, they are very easily swayed by shiny things and that’s what the media gives them. Why? Because this country is being destroyed from within. Correction — It HAS ALREADY been destroyed from within.


8 posted on 04/20/2023 11:10:09 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Morgana

What if I had addressed one of these confused bunnies as “it”?


9 posted on 04/20/2023 11:11:25 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Morgana

How can there be LGBTQ if you can’t say what a women is?


10 posted on 04/20/2023 11:11:29 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: libh8er

I want my 1980s back where one and all laughed at trannies.


11 posted on 04/20/2023 11:11:55 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: BenLurkin

There are just too many rules to follow now.


12 posted on 04/20/2023 11:12:48 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Dogbert41

He fired 80 percent of Twitter’s employees.

or did he say he could ,trim the waste ? LOL


13 posted on 04/20/2023 11:15:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Morgana

Those poor weirdos. Must be tiring to be perpetually butt-hurt...


14 posted on 04/20/2023 11:17:33 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: jeffc

Self-inflicted.


15 posted on 04/20/2023 11:22:57 AM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate an reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Dogbert41

“He fired 80 percent of Twitter’s employees.”

No, he just “identified” them as non-employees, that’s all.


16 posted on 04/20/2023 11:24:11 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Sam Gamgee

Monty Python - Loretta
https://youtu.be/Dgp9MPLEAqA


17 posted on 04/20/2023 11:44:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Dogbert41

It is amazing how many people you do not need when you are not trying to silence half your potential user base because of political incorrectness.


19 posted on 04/20/2023 11:46:57 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Levy78

=;-)


20 posted on 04/20/2023 12:33:01 PM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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