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ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by chrisbit@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The BBC has a history of being antitrans?

That's quite a revelation to me, it has more of a reputation of being extremely liberal and indeed any even remotely right winger here usually whinges and moans about how "woke" it is 🤷🏻‍♂️

Do you know what in particular triggered their stance that they believed the BBC anti-trans?

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you know what in particular triggered their stance that they believed the BBC anti-trans?

There is a series by Shaun (a Youtuber) about anti trans stuff at the BBC and one article in particular.

First of 4 Videos is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4buJMMiwcg

[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for that, most interesting.

It's odd given their usually quite liberal stance... I wonder if there some old conservatism creeping in with the Tories being in power for so long..?

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Sadly in UK transphobia seems to be pretty common in liberals and liberal institutions. I think that is because in UK the idea to connect transphobia with "womens rights" was really successful and this results in otherwise really liberal / left leaning / feminist individuals & groups to be actively anti-trans. As far as i know even otherwise trust worthy news papers like the guardian plattform anti trans talking points.

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the official broadcaster of TERF island. Even their foremost left wing newspaper is transphobia central.

[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It still makes me so sad to see what's become of the Guardian.