LinkedIn quietly changes its hate speech policy for the first time in 3 years
Following Meta and YouTube, LinkedIn this week quietly changed the wording of its policy on “hateful and offensive content.”
Following Meta and YouTube, LinkedIn this week quietly changed the wording of its policy on “hateful and offensive content.”
The company has removed a clause in its hate speech policy that prohibited misgendering (incorrect gender identification) and deadnaming (using a previous name) of transgender individuals, Engadget writes .
The archived version lists "misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals" as an example of prohibited content under this policy.
Advocacy groups believe this is a blatant move against LGBTQ people.
“LinkedIn’s quiet decision to roll back long-standing, best practices for protecting transgender and non-binary people from hate speech is a blatant anti-LGBTQ move that should be alarming to everyone,” a GLAAD spokesperson said. “Following Meta and YouTube earlier this year, yet another social media company has decided to adopt a cowardly business practice to try to appease anti-LGBTQ political ideologues at the expense of user safety.”
A LinkedIn spokesperson, however, said the company’s core policy has not changed despite the update. The company’s policies still list “gender identity” as a protected characteristic. “We regularly update our policies,” the company said in a statement. “Personal attacks or bullying of anyone based on their identity, including gender misidentification, violate our harassment policies and are not tolerated on our platform.”
However, the company did not provide an explanation for this change.
Earlier this year, Meta rewrote its rules to allow its users to claim that LGBTQ people have mental illnesses. The company also added a term associated with discrimination and dehumanization to its community standards, and has so far refused to remove it even after its Board of Supervisors recommended it do so. YouTube also quietly updated its rules this year to remove references to “gender identity” from its hate speech policy. The platform denied that it had actually changed any of its rules, suggesting that the move “was part of the normal editing of text on the website.”
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