this doesn’t just block nonbinary people it blocks anyone who doesn’t provide that personal information to google. it’s a direct punishment for trying to remain at all anonymous or private. one might ask why companies are so desperate to seek out and FILTER based on gender in the first place.
Some readers may think I am being pessimistic, but think about how, back in 2015, very few people would have predicted the relentless political backsliding that the past seven years have brought. Given how drastically the political situation has deteriorated so far, it only makes sense to predict that it will continue to deteriorate at the same rate in the future.
We all need to prepare for the likely imminent future in which right-wing Republicans continue their ongoing successful takeover of the federal government and enforce laws and policies so authoritarian and so unflinchingly cruel that they will make the past seven years of political backsliding seem like a daydream.
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
A judge ruling in favor of a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit moving forward signals the possibility of looming financial woes for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. According to The Guardian, Delaware Supreme Court Judge Eric David in June ruled that Dominion Voting Systems could proceed with its defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation.
The lawsuit is a legal pushback against Fox News’ reporting and perpetuation of voter fraud and election misinformation following the 2020 presidential election.
Per The Guardian, David determined “that it was a reasonable inference that Murdoch and son Lachlan either knew outright that Dominion had not manipulated the election or ’recklessly disregarded the truth’ when Fox disseminated lies initially launched by Donald Trump.”
Fox News going bankrupt would be the single greatest thing to happen this whole year <3
