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Lucinda Nelson
@lucinda-nelson.bsky.social
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👩🏼‍💻 PhD candidate @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
📚 law | tech | violence against women
🏳️‍🌈 no terfs 🏳️‍⚧️
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I ran a “bake your thesis” (or more accurately, “decorate a cupcake like your thesis”) competition with @lynrose.bsky.social at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social summer school this week and everyone smashed it! Here’s to more silly fun times ✨
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February 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Here’s me being cranky about Meta, again:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Lucinda Nelson, a social media researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, said marginalised people, like those in the LGBTQIA+ community, needed more protection not less. "What is the point of having rights when you don't uphold them when there's a threat to these marginalised populations?" Ms Nelson said. "When trans rights and queer rights are under attack in political discourse, that's when they've chosen to pull away and reduce protections for these populations.
January 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Dark time to be working on content moderation, gender and sexuality

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
In a notable shift, the company now says it allows "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like 'weird." In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy. A new addition appears to carve out room for people who want to post about how, for example, women shouldn't be allowed to serve in the military or men shouldn't be allowed to teach math because of their gender. Meta now permits content that argues for "gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs." Another update elaborates on what Meta permits in conversations about social exclusion. It now states that "people sometimes use sex- or gender-exclusive language when discussing access to spaces often limited by sex or gender, such as access to bathrooms, specific schools, specific military, law enforcement, or teaching roles, and health or support groups." Previously, this carve-out was only available for discussions about keeping health and support groups limited to one gender.
January 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Back from a beautiful few days at Woodford Folk Festival with @qutdmrc.bsky.social, talking to people about online safety, data donation, and everything in between ✨
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December 30, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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If you’re at Woodford this year, come listen to @essideh.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social, Benson Rajan and me talk about online safety!

29 December, 6:15-7:15pm at the Arbour

@qutdmrc.bsky.social
A poster titled “The 5 Ws of Online Safety” with photos of presenters and a written abstract.
December 23, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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I’ve been sharing a lot about the social media ban lately (because it’s so ridiculous) but this is just one of many pieces of terrible legislation being pushed through right now.

See also: this excerpt from the absolutely ghoulish “Making Queensland Safer Bill” aimed at locking up more kids
Text excerpt including the words, “For the purposes of the Human Rights Act 2019, section 43(1), it is declared that subsection (1) has effect — (a) despite being incompatible with human rights; and (b) despite anything else in the Human Rights Act 2019”
November 28, 2024 at 1:28 PM