The website of a gender critical group, Sex Matters, was blocked on a Great Western Railway train’s WiFi, with AI scanners flagging it for “terrorism and hate”. The Mail more.
Sex Matters, a self-described “human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy”, campaigns for “easy and safe” conversations about what it calls “ordinary truth” biology.
But the group’s website was blocked on a Great Western Railway train “because it’s associated with the terrorism and hate category”, a page blocker said.
GWR said that the page was blocked because AI scanners had deemed it ‘adult’ content, likely due to the repetition of the word ‘sex’.
It was not clear why the page was flagged for “terrorism and hate”.
A GWR spokesperson told the Telegraph they have “asked [their] supplier to review the tagging of the site to ensure it has been correctly categorised”.
GWR has not confirmed whether the technology they use is set up to filter out gender-critical content.
Sex Matters is a group “informing public debate by undertaking research and analysis”.
According to their website, their vision is for an “easy and safe” way to speak about biological differences [between men and women] while respecting “belief in gender ideology”.
They argue “it has become dangerous to speak the truth” about biological sex and laws thereof are “unclear and misinterpreted”.
They also claim that “replacing” sex with “gender identity” in various institutions “undermines everyone’s human rights”.
But not all agree with the group’s aims. The People’s History Museum faced backlash and apologised after allowing the group to hold a board meeting on its premises in July.
Internet users called the group “hateful” and trans-exclusive, prompting the museum to say sorry.
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