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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I think it’s fine to have women-only or men-only spaces if the goal is to not have the social dynamics of a mixed space for specific discussions. I don’t think that’s discrimination at all, but that word has multiple meanings.

    It is sex discrimination, but not sexism, to refuse to hire cis men as wet nurses. It is disability discrimination, but not illegal discrimination, to refuse to hire someone in a wheelchair to be a circus acrobat.

    Neither of these are prejudiced. You also wouldn’t hire a cis woman as wet nurse if she couldn’t breastfeed (which is the reason for discriminating) and there certainly are circus acrobats who are wheelchair-bound, it’s just that usual acts wouldn’t work with that, especially not safely.

    The other form of discrimination is based on prejudice against a group, no exceptions. It’s not “no because you can’t do X”, it’s “no because you are X”. That’s never a good thing. But it also isn’t necessarily the motivation behind creating an X-only space.




  • Would take a whistleblower to expose these things, and usually its done many years after.

    So no, and also no, I disagree. If phones did this, especially to custom-tailor ads, like I’ve seen claimed countless times, then security researchers would be perfectly capable of uncovering this behavior without someone on the inside.

    Its that they’re storing and probably transcribing all communications for all time, so that at any moment in the future, they can target a person and look up that history.

    Is this just more speculation? EDIT: I’m bringing this up because it weakens the argument for privacy. This is a huge claim and if it can be dismissed like this then people might dismiss everything else with it.