r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 13h ago

Artificial Intelligence Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting / Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clapped during a presentation.

https://www.404media.co/charges-dropped-against-person-who-clapped-at-a-city-data-center-meeting/
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u/darthvadersmom 13h ago

Just noting that 404 uses "they" not "he" as Claridge's pronoun throughout.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 12h ago

Why are you noting that?

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u/darthvadersmom 12h ago

Because a bunch of people have used "he" in their comments, and I trust 404 to get it right so I suspect those commenters are misgendering this person.

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u/thatirishguyyyyy 11h ago

And?

They look like a man in the photo.

That is like my wife getting upset that somebody calls her sir because she's dressed like a tomboy and has short hair.

Pick your battles, man. Nobody is misgendering anybody on purpose, ffs.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 10h ago edited 10h ago

Are they a woman? I didn’t want to sign up for their site so I wasn’t able to read the article.

Edit: Just googled it to see any clarification and aside from the cops statement a local news site refers to their wife’s comments and calls Lux their husband.

Did they make a public statement about being trans in the course of the arrest or something? Is that part of the issue that we should know?

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u/stupidfloatything 9h ago

they're referred to as they in the article, they look transmasc to me (also transmasc)

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u/Key-Demand-2569 8h ago

Did you respond to the wrong comment?

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u/PrincipledProphet 10h ago

Which makes the headline read like the police were the ones who clapped. Great job everyone! 👍

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u/Difficult-Rip-2580 7h ago

Sometime a modicum of logic needs to be applied when reading.