MPF investigates whether Twitter policy favors transphobia – 05/01/2023 – Panel

The MPF (Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office) has opened a civil inquiry to determine whether a change in Twitter’s hate content policy will damage the rights of transgender people.

The Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office for Citizens’ Rights (PRDC) in Acre sent a letter to the platform questioning how it will fight transphobia after, according to a complaint, it removed the act of intentionally referring to a trans person with their name from the hate speech framework. baptism or the gender with which he does not identify.

The inquiry will be conducted by the Federal Public Prosecutor Lucas Costa Almeida Dias. According to the order, the objective is to investigate the “regression in the protection of transgender people”. Twitter has 15 days to respond to the MPF.

The rule had been used since 2018. According to the crime news presented by Antra (National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals), the change in platform policy occurred in April, silently.

“The internet cannot continue to be a playground for transphobic hate speech to go unpunished. People are killed as a result of hate and others are driven to self-extermination for the same reason. The impacts of this change in the country that most murders trans people in the world may have consequences devastating,” the association said on a social network.

Sought, Twitter did not return the contacts.

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