Lawyering Up

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[–]hinterlands[S] 31 insightful - 1 fun31 insightful - 0 fun32 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

They cannot refuse service to a protected class. Guess what homosexuals are.

Our spaces are being taken and reddit is complicit. They cannot refuse service on the basis of sexual orientation, which is the outcome of trans censorship of homosexual spaces.

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I mean, you can sue Reddit for any reason, that doesn't mean there's a case to be made. And it sounds like to make that case you'd have to first argue that LGB erasure by the trans rights movement is a thing and all I can really say is good luck with that. Especially since Reddit's defense would likely be that transgender people are more worthy of the protected class status and that they banned gender critical subs to protect them. I just don't see Reddit losing that case.

[–]denverkrisMy pronouns are Vodka?/Yes!/please 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is no data to back up the assertion that trans are more worthy of being protected than women or homosexuals. So, that defense might be problematic, no?

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would hope so, but I don't think that's guaranteed.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Technically everyone is in a protected class since race is also a protected class. What protective class means is that they cannot discriminate based off of it. Someone might be able to go after Reddit for their new TOS though.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am pretty sure their new TOS are illegal in European Union.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In USA homosexual people are not protected and can be discriminated on a basis of a sexual orientation in many instances, and in general laws there more supportive of private companies, than abused users. It can be possible in Europe, but maximum what it can achieve is only ban Reddit in Europe and maybe some fines.

As you can see, there no "sexual orientation" in list: https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/no-fear-act/protections-against-discrimination

[–]FediNetizenSuper-semi-bisexual (i.e. straight) 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You seem to have missed the recent supreme court ruling. However, this lawsuit will still go nowhere, because reddit isn't refusing to allow gay people on the site; they're refusing to allow GC people to use the site, some of whom happen to be gay.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is great news if it will holds true.

Reddit have banned lesbian subreddit which was "only for pussylovers" for "transphobia". Basically what reddit said is that just being lesbian - is being transphobic.

[–]FediNetizenSuper-semi-bisexual (i.e. straight) 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They cannot refuse service to a protected class

And they aren't. Reddit hasn't banned homosexual people and isn't refusing to serve them, either; there are still plenty of gay people on the site. What reddit actually banned was GC subreddits and GC viewpoints. That some of those GC people happen to be gay doesn't mean it's illegal to kick them off the site.

Being gay doesn't mean that no one can refuse to serve you. It means that no one can refuse to serve you for being gay. Which reddit isn't doing.