Social Media Bans for Unstated Violations are Ableist against People with SPLDs, including Autism
Looking for feedback on this idea
I am looking for feedback on a thought I had which is that the social media platforms' choice to knowingly and intentionally make their policies opaque, applied inconsistently and without recourse, all adds up to an intention to discriminate on the basis of disability - specifically, the kind of perspective-taking and social reasoning and language disabilities impacted by a condition like autism, which would make it more difficult for an individual with autism to predict what would be seen by the platform as a violation of their guidelines.
This is especially egregious when the platform makes no attempt to apply guidelines strikes or other warnings that would educate the user of the platform, who has a disability, about what is expected in a clear and logical manner. I believe it is not legal for them to operate in this manner where they ban people permanently who have never had any sort of warning placed on their account and are not told what they did wrong. I feel I was fraudulently induced into investing time into an income-generating platform on the theory I would be given creator guidance by the platform prior to losing my platform.
These tech platforms seem to make no attempt to reasonable accommodate this and related categories of disability, such as brain injury related judgment deficits which could be overcome through clear and consistent application of rules. Therefore I am looking for an attorney who is interested in discussing this more with me. Disability discrimination cases often have more teeth and may also be a vehicle for getting back-end data that would reveal whether these policies were being disproportionately applied to members of other protected categories, especially females, whether such discrimination was intentionally or a "disparate impact" of their unlawful policies.
Who's with me? I both have social-pragmatic language disorder and expertise in social pragmatic language disorders as a speech pathologist.
man, fuck youtube for what they did to you.
I would think you could make a case. I am only familiar with Facebook, but it makes sense that if you are violating some kind of guidelines you should be told what you are doing "wrong."