Mon Dec 12, 2022 – 4:48 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The former head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, Yoel Roth, argued in favor of teenagers being on the homosexual “dating app” Grindr in his Ph.D. thesis.
On December 10, Elon Musk posted a screenshot of the paragraph of Roth’s thesis, adding that it “Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his Ph.D. thesis[.]”
Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis: pic.twitter.com/1NiBohjhMQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2022
Roth’s Ph.D. thesis was written in 2016 and is titled “Gay Data.” It deals with “geosocial networking services,” especially Grindr, a “dating app” for homosexual men.
In his thesis, Roth, who is homosexual, argued in favor of minors being on platforms that are associated with explicit sexual content. He referred to the protection of underage people from sexual content on the Internet as a “paranoid narrative”:
Questions of physical safety become even more urgent when they’re coupled with what Wendy Chun (2006) has called one of the most enduring “paranoid narratives” of digital
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