▲ 271 ▼ Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
[–] sour@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (6 children) can cis people put pronouns in their name permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 points 3 years ago (4 children) Hopefully nothing stopping you, and it can avoid some awkward situations. My company forbids us from including them in our email signature block, and there's been some confusion due to people assuming I'm a woman and using she/her pronouns to refer to me. Even as a cis white guy, I wish my company let us add preferred pronouns to avoid dumb little situations like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 2 points 3 years ago* I'm sorry to put you on a spotlight, but your situation is precisely what I was thinking about when I made my comment. Not queer or some woke SJW warrior. You're just a person trying to live his life, and I have to imagine that a State Law banning you from putting them in anything official or public would be similarly frustrating. But the thing is, you're just collateral damage at best to the GOP, and speaking from experience, at worst the target of ire simply for creating such confusion in other people for merely having an ambiguous name, I assume. permalink fedilink source parent [–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 point 3 years ago Obviously just adding pronouns would be better, but can you add “Mr.” at the beginning of your name in your signature? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Veraxus@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Sounds like you need to find a new employer. That is a toxic and discriminatory policy that exists exclusively for one reason: because the executives are raging bigots. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 1 point 3 years ago IDK, if she lives in one of these authoritarian right wing regimes in the US, the company might not have a choice. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 0 points 3 years ago Yes, and it's actually appreciated by many trans and nonbinary people, because it normalises the concept. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 points 3 years ago (4 children) Hopefully nothing stopping you, and it can avoid some awkward situations. My company forbids us from including them in our email signature block, and there's been some confusion due to people assuming I'm a woman and using she/her pronouns to refer to me. Even as a cis white guy, I wish my company let us add preferred pronouns to avoid dumb little situations like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 2 points 3 years ago* I'm sorry to put you on a spotlight, but your situation is precisely what I was thinking about when I made my comment. Not queer or some woke SJW warrior. You're just a person trying to live his life, and I have to imagine that a State Law banning you from putting them in anything official or public would be similarly frustrating. But the thing is, you're just collateral damage at best to the GOP, and speaking from experience, at worst the target of ire simply for creating such confusion in other people for merely having an ambiguous name, I assume. permalink fedilink source parent [–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 point 3 years ago Obviously just adding pronouns would be better, but can you add “Mr.” at the beginning of your name in your signature? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Veraxus@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Sounds like you need to find a new employer. That is a toxic and discriminatory policy that exists exclusively for one reason: because the executives are raging bigots. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 1 point 3 years ago IDK, if she lives in one of these authoritarian right wing regimes in the US, the company might not have a choice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 2 points 3 years ago* I'm sorry to put you on a spotlight, but your situation is precisely what I was thinking about when I made my comment. Not queer or some woke SJW warrior. You're just a person trying to live his life, and I have to imagine that a State Law banning you from putting them in anything official or public would be similarly frustrating. But the thing is, you're just collateral damage at best to the GOP, and speaking from experience, at worst the target of ire simply for creating such confusion in other people for merely having an ambiguous name, I assume. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 point 3 years ago Obviously just adding pronouns would be better, but can you add “Mr.” at the beginning of your name in your signature? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Sounds like you need to find a new employer. That is a toxic and discriminatory policy that exists exclusively for one reason: because the executives are raging bigots. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 1 point 3 years ago IDK, if she lives in one of these authoritarian right wing regimes in the US, the company might not have a choice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 1 point 3 years ago IDK, if she lives in one of these authoritarian right wing regimes in the US, the company might not have a choice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee [S] 0 points 3 years ago Yes, and it's actually appreciated by many trans and nonbinary people, because it normalises the concept. permalink fedilink source parent