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When iconoclastic billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 he promised to restore free speech to the social media platform, whose previous regime had censored content and banned users practically indiscriminately. In the years since, Musk has faced questions about whether his policies are consistent with his bold promises — a criticism that has been reinforced by his recent treatment of the word “cisgender”.
Musk is clearly no fan of the term, which is often abbreviated to “cis” and used by social progressives to denote someone who is not transgender. He has called it a “slur” and announced some months ago that its repeated use would be treated as a violation of the harassment policies at X, as it’s now known. Now, users who post the term are reportedly seeing their posts restricted.
As TechCrunch reports, “If you write the words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ on X, you might be served this full-screen message: ‘This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules.’ You can continue to publish the post or delete it.”
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