LOL WUTFormer Twitter “Trust and Safety” Committee member turns out to be Nonce-adjacent

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[–]Datachost 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I sort of understand his argument that gay teens might need a space where they can talk about being in that awkward time of life, which I'm sure is made a little bit awkward by not being like everyone else. But why does that space have to be Grindr? Make another app for that, because the idea that you can have it adjacent to an area that is being used for hookups even more than Tinder is, is ludicrous

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Trouble with those sorts of spaces is that they’re like catnip for pædos. Any organisation that set one up would have to be ridiculously well run, and unfortunately the kinds of people that set these things up seem to be wilfully blind to the risks.

From a personal safeguarding perspective you couldn’t get me as an adult anywhere near a site or app for children or teens to talk about that stuff. Working on something like that is just asking to be at some point hauled into a police station or inquiry because some comment - possibly not even made by you - could be interpreted ambiguously.

Nope.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Gay discord servers span the whole range up to and including nudging kids to lie about their age so they can get into the nsfw channels.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's disgusting.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not all servers. The more public oriented servers are ultra woke and never hesitate to spam channels when any of the 700 trans holidays passes. One server in particular was really degenerate where the owner was perpetually online and would see every word written in every channel. He would always have a rotating sidekick of questionable age.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's better to reach out to parents or gay kids than to gay kids. That way the parents can help their gay kids and groomers can be kept away from these kids.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think more resources should be available to gay teenagers. I started having same sex attractions when I was 14 but it took me until I was 17 to process them. If I had the right information from the right people I would have been able to process it sooner.

And yes, grindr is not a suitable place for helping gay teenagers. But I don't know about using any app for that matter. Instead, parents, schools and communities should collaborate to establish places where gay and bisexual teenagers can meet up. And those spaces should be supervised by vetted adults, such as one of the parents, to ensure that the teenagers are safe and don't do anything careless. There should be talks about STDs, domestic abuse, knowing your rights and responsibilities, self defence and how to obtain skills. In fact, it could be an opportunity to plant right wing ideas into the heads of gay teenagers. Fuck it, if drag queens can go to libraries and churches to spread degenerate ideas to children, right wingers can recruit gay teenagers by convincing them that demographics matter, that climate change is overblown, that taxation is theft, that guns are good, that transgenderism is bullshit and that abortion is murder. Imagine a generation of gay people shutting down drag queens story hour, shutting down planned parenthood clinics, dispersing Extinction Rebellion protests and chasing away illegal aliens.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Twitter’s former Global Head of Trust and Safety is under scrutiny for past comments in which he appeared to question the age at which youth can consent to sexual activity. Following the public resignation of Yoel Roth, who had worked for the social media giant for seven years, netizens began circulating his PhD thesis – which argues that minors under the age of 18 should be able to access applications for adults.

On December 10, Twitter CEO Elon Musk caused waves after sharing a screenshot from Roth’s PhD thesis which appeared to imply that minors should be permitted to use Grindr, an application used by adult gay men to facilitate sexual encounters.

“It’s worth considering how, if at all, the current generation of popular sites of gay networked sociability might fit into an overall queer social landscape that increasingly includes individuals under the age of 18,” reads Roth’s thesis, which was titled “Gay Data” and submitted in 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania.