If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.
  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    21 hours ago

    Following the Nazi playbook: Using the government to constantly surveil minorities.

    Up next: Transgender “tip” hotlines where people can call in the imaginary slights of their LGBTQ neighbors (or just women that look too masculine/don’t fit with their ideas of what a woman should look like and behave).

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Honestly they surveil for existing. I’m not convinced they want to target these groups as much as they don’t like any reason they’re told they can’t. My daughter’s UK boyfriend just flew in yesterday and they grilled him for two hours because of dumb shit like why didn’t he have more underwear packed. They knew everything about my daughter’s dating relationship with him. They’re both only 20.

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    They’ve allowed surveillance regardless. However they’ll surely try to claim that having a different orientation or gender identity makes someone mentally unwell.

    • floofloof
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Just like the USSR used to disappear people it didn’t like into “treatment” for being “mentally unwell”.