Biggest bag fumble in tech history. All they had to do was listen to trans people.

  • Lostlurker [she/her, they/them]
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    18 hours ago

    Jesse Singal joined Bluesky with the expressed intent to bring his Xitter followers and harass the trans population there. When the Bluesky users asked his account to be suspended or banned for their safety, the Bluesky Trust&Safety team basically said he had done nothing explicitly against guidelines on the site and that they would not do so. Even when shown direct evidence of him publishing medical records on the site without the patients' permission. Bluesky T&S basically nuked the goodwill they had been cultivating among marginalized communities.

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      12 hours ago

      it really seems that a tactic that western liberals in positions of power love to do when running apologetics for murderers and attempted murderers is to ignore hard facts and reality when there is blatant evidence of malicious intent

      then, with the same deluded thinking, twist and turn reality to invent evidence of wrongdoing when there are people from a marginalized group they want to harm

      an example of this would be how mr. bonerelli can win the gold medal of mental gymnastics and evil simultaneously by saying the dozens of people murdered in cold blood by the IDF were paid to die by Kkhaaamas because it would make pissrael look bad... while also saying there is no evidence for systemic genocidal intent from pissrael

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      17 hours ago

      publishing medical records on the site without the patients' permission.

      Please tell me there's a HIPAA lawsuit incoming. That shit has fines in the millions of dollars and like 10 year prison sentences for disclosing patient information with malicious intent.

      • Lostlurker [she/her, they/them]
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        16 hours ago

        He’s claiming to have been given the records by the doctor because he is a “journalist” and they support his claim that pedophelia isn’t harmful to the kids, but gender affirming care is. Anyone whose data he may be sharing will have to prove harm from this in order to sue. It’s really f’ed up.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          13 hours ago

          Yeah doctors can't give your medical history to the press, regardless of the circumstances. Like even the cops have to get a subpoena in order to access a patient's medical records. And even then, they may struggle getting information they want. In psychiatric care, for example, unless you tell your therapist you plan on hurting yourself or literally killing someone else, they can't even disclose their relationship to you. That's enough to lose their license. You essentially have with your psychiatrist the same protections you have with your lawyer.

          At the very least, the doctor who leaked the medical records should be stripped of their position and possibly charged with malpractice.

          • Lostlurker [she/her, they/them]
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            12 hours ago

            Reports have been made to the “authorities”, but he keeps getting away with it because the right wingers agree with him and defend him. You have a strange amount of faith in a system that agrees with him and hates us.

            • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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              12 hours ago

              Oh no it doesn't surprise me at all. I just thought they'd at least try and be subtle about it, not actually come out and say "Yeah I just asked the doctor and he handed over everything." Just throw it on the pile of shit reactionaries get away with because liberals allow them to.

        • Wolfman86 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          13 hours ago

          I’m struggling to get my head round this…they don’t like MtF trans people cause they (allegedly) all want to nonce kids, but paedophilia doesn’t harm kids? That’s all kinds of fucked.

          Also, there are lots of paedos in right wing groups.

          • Lostlurker [she/her, they/them]
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            12 hours ago

            Yup, basically Singal is a right wing asshole with a history of defending pedos and anti-trans propaganda who masquerades a a journalist. And the libertarian techbros on the BS Trust&Safety team decided not to do anything to stop him from hurting their subscribers. It’s as simple as it is disgusting.