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HackSoc AGM nominations

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Amendment - Inclusion and Hate Speech #23

Open Firren-Phospuras opened 8 months ago

Firren-Phospuras commented 8 months ago

Inclusion and Hate Speech on Society Social Media Channels

Explicitly ban the use of hate speech and fascist rhetoric by members on the discord and other society social media spaces.

The repeated tolerance of these opinions in HackSoc spaces creates a bad reputation and leaves minority communities from engaging fully with the computer science opportunities presented by the society. ...

zac-garby commented 8 months ago

"Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language." is in the rules already, does this fit? Maybe better/stricter enforcement is worthwhile.

jmshrv commented 8 months ago

bean-fights can get argumentitive at times, it's a balancing act (saying "no politics" sucks) but I agree that hate speech is way too far and that we should really push to stop it getting inflammatory.