Translation: bigotry

Millie isn't happy.

"Faggot". "Poof". That's what Google Translate suggests when you type the word “gay." 500 million people use Google Translate every month. That’s a lot of people being taught hateful words and insults.

Google is listening out for feedback this week, as they just launched a new version of their translation app. Google already has the technology to filter out hateful language: typing “female” doesn’t throw up sexist words.

Sign now to ask Google – known as a pro-equality company – to remove anti-gay slurs from its translation:

go.allout.org/en/a/google-translate

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