Twitter Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is restoring a string of accounts previously suspended for harassing transgender people, rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community as the country confronts the aftermath of a shooting in a Colorado gay club that left five people dead and dozens wounded.
Advocates say the shooting on Saturday highlights the potential real-world violence that can stem from rhetoric against the trans community. They noted that anti-trans abuse has been mounting on the platform since the shooting.
¡°Creating this environment of relentless attack and permissible hate, it results in the kinds of things we saw Saturday night in Colorado,¡± said Cathy Renna, spokeswoman for the National LGBTQ task force. ¡°We cannot carefully step around the fact that you can draw a straight line between these things.¡±
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