The Trevor Project has joined a long list of LGBTQ+ organizations quitting Elon Musk's social medium site, X, citing its refusal to do anything about the increasing pestilence of hate speech infesting the former Twitter.
It makes perfect sense that an organization dedicated to preventing youth suicide wouldn't want their posts polluted with garbage from fascist trolls who are dedicated to pushing the suicidal over the edge just for clicks and kicks.
Back in April, about the time that he ditched the Twitter moniker in favor of "X," Musk quietly removed certain Twitter protections against misgendering and deadnaming transgender users, adding to an already hostile, hate-speech filled environment. "Twitter has become increasingly unsafe in recent months for LGBTQ and BIPOC people with anti-LGBTQ, anti-trans, anti-Black, and antisemitic tweets on the rise. The removal of this policy was the last straw," Denise Spivak, CEO of CenterLink, told Mashable as several of its 325 member LGBTQ organizations worldwide quit the platform en masse.
Complaints about what a run-down, shady neighborhood X has become since Musk took over have fallen on deaf ears. Musk, apparently, has unmasked himself as the platform's fascist troll-in-chief.
Your humble scribbler came late to Twitter (see, I can deadname, too!) and I haven't yet experienced a great deal of abuse there. Were that situation to change, I can't imagine why I would ever want to pay the Muskovite platform eight bucks a month for the privilege.
I suppose I should have saved today's title in case I ever draw a cartoon about Google. But chances are its parent company might have changed (at least its name) by then, so what the heck.
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