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Showing posts with label Transgender spat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transgender spat. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Peter Williams: Telcos should be telcos


How did Spark and One NZ get tangled up in a transgender spat?

Somehow the country’s major telcos have finished up in a stupid social media spat fueled by rent-a-quote and trouble maker Shaneel Lal.

The new app Threads had hardly hit the market late last week when Lal was on the case.

A message went on the app which said “Dear Threaders, Can we agree that we won’t tolerate TERFs on Threads. They’ve made the lives of trans-people living hell on almost all platforms. Let’s not allow their hatred to poison this app too. Requested with love. “