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GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis thinks social media crackdowns and government intervention are steps needed to guarantee online safety for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
“We do need government intervention here, and we need the right policies,” she said on “CBS Mornings” Thursday, responding to a question of who and what should implement crackdowns on social media hate speech against LGBTQ+ people.
“This has been going on for over a decade and Congress has been really ineffective to say the best,” she added.
A GLAAD report discussed during the segment found that 84 percent of LGBTQ+ adults feel that “not enough” online protections are in place against discrimination and harassment.
According to the report, five key social media giants – Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube – lacked essential protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community and created further dismay for those identifying as transgender by limiting their pronoun options on each platform.
“The environment out there is really tough for LGBTQ people, especially our youth,” Ellis said. “Also, what’s happened over this past year is we’ve seen over 300 anti-LGBTQ bills at the state level proposed.”
Ellis argued that online hate speech perpetrators are to blame for the allegedly anti-LGBTQ legislation that has captured media attention over recent months, including Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law that Democrats and the media coined as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and numerous states’ attempts to crack down on biological males competing in women’s sports.
“This is all driven from online. That’s where people get together. That’s where this hate and discrimination festers,” she said…. (Read more)
