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Google's chairman Eric Schmidt has written an op-ed to The New York Times calling for tools to disrupt speech on social media:
Technology companies should work on tools to disrupt terrorism - such as creating a hate speech "spell-checker" - Google's chairman Eric Schmidt has said. Writing in The New York Times, Mr Schmidt said using technology to automatically filter-out extremist material would "de-escalate tensions on social media" and "remove videos before they spread".
His essay comes as presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton again called on Silicon Valley to help tackle terrorism, specifically seeking tools to combat the so-called Islamic State. "We need to put the great disrupters at work at disrupting ISIS," she said during a speech in Washington DC.
From the NYT editorial:
In Myanmar, connectivity fans the flames of violence against the Rohingya, the minority Muslim population. In Russia, farms of online trolls systematically harass democratic voices and spread false information on the Internet and on social media. And in the Middle East, terrorists use social media to recruit new members. In particular, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has harnessed social media to appeal to disaffected young people, giving them a sense of belonging and direction that they are not getting anywhere else. The militants' propaganda videos are high on style and production value. They're slick and marketable. In short, they are deluding some people to believe that living a life fueled by hatred and violence is actually ... cool.
This is where our own relationship with the Internet, and with technology, must be examined more closely. The Internet is not just a series of tubes transmitting information from place to place, terminal to terminal, without regard for those typing on their keyboards or reading on their screens. The people who use any technology are the ones who need to define its role in society. Technology doesn't work on its own, after all. It's just a tool. We are the ones who harness its power.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Wednesday December 09 2015, @06:31PM
...then, came the hate...
any topic chosen looks the same:
gaming - in the beginning, there were people who played games.
NOW: woman, feminists, antiracists, muslims, jews, mothers and priests came, and demanded to be respected for WHO they are.
internet in general: in the beginning there were sites and forums. you googled, or in the early days yahood or gophered for some shit, found it, read it and was happy.
NOW: woman, feminists, antiracists, muslims, jews, mothers and priests came, and demanded to be respected for WHO they are.
university: I enrolled 96... there was some drinking, party and study... sure there were some problems, but what the hell... it is a fukcing WARZONE now...
NOW: woman, feminists, antiracists, muslims, jews, mothers and priests came, and demanded to be respected for WHO they are.
EVERY fucking place is a warzone, because there are a lot of human beings that do not know the proper niche carved out for them in life, and want a piece of the others land...
THE WORST EXAMPLE OF THEM ALL: I wanted to become a bit more cultural, so I went to a salsa course. Of course, the new guys asked the teachers and those who tended to go out a lot where the good places are.
It came into the light, that all the places have some problems with haters: the people who go out and just sit, drink and watch the dancers and never dance themselves. As I understood, they might not contribute to a good mood...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax