![]() READ: Elon Musk confirms Twitter ‘shadow banned’ conservative political candidates “Perhaps this is truly representative of an increasingly absent demand among young adults for networked spaces to engage with peers about their sexuality but it’s worth considering how, if at all, the current generation of popular sites of gay networked sociability might fit into an overall queer social landscape that increasingly includes individuals under the age of 18.” “While gay youth-oriented chat rooms and social networking services were available in the early 2000s, these services have largely fallen by the wayside, in favor of general-purpose platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat,” he stated. Questions of physical safety become even more urgent when they’re coupled with what Wendy Chun (2006) has called one of the most enduring “paranoid narratives” of digital media: the need to protect minors from the unregulated sexual wilds of the internet.Īccording to Roth, in the discussions surrounding youth protection on apps like Grindr, it was rarely acknowledged “that the new medium of gay-targeted social networking may be a crucial social outlet for gay, bisexual, and questioning youth.” He referred to the protection of underage people from sexual content on the Internet as a “paranoid narrative”: In his thesis, Roth, who is homosexual, argued in favor of minors being on platforms that are associated with explicit sexual content. thesis was written in 2016 and is titled “Gay Data.” It deals with “geosocial networking services,” especially Grindr, a “dating app” for homosexual men. Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis: /1NiBohjhMQ On December 10, Elon Musk posted a screenshot of the paragraph of Roth’s thesis, adding that it “Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his Ph.D. ![]() ![]() ( LifeSiteNews ) - The former head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, Yoel Roth, argued in favor of teenagers being on the homosexual “dating app” Grindr in his Ph.D.
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