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X will now lower the visibility of posts that "misgender" or "deadname"

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When Elon Musk bought Twitter, many people expected a new era of unbridled free speech. Well, if that was ever in the cards, it’s over and done with now. X has revived a version of Old Twitter’s policy against “misgendering” and “deadnaming.”

Here are some details (hat tip to

Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
)

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its abuse and harassment rules to revive regulations around content that misgenders or deadnames individuals.

The quiet update comes less than a year after the platform, under Musk’s ownership, revoked its ban on content that uses a transgender person’s name before they transitioned — known as a deadname — or purposefully used the wrong gender for someone.

The updated rules state X “will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition.”

Well, there you go, folks. You have to go along …

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