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Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies have been given an ultimatum by the European Union: rid your platforms of hate speech or face legal consequences.
European regulators have been pushing social media firms to remove racist and violent posts from their platforms in a timely manner for years. Their patience is running out.
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google have all pledged to do more. In May 2016, they promised to review a majority of hate speech flagged by users within 24 hours and to remove any illegal content.
But the European Commission, EU's top regulator, said Thursday they are still failing to act fast enough. It said it would pass laws allowing the EU to impose punishments on companies that fail to act.
"The situation is not sustainable: in more than 28% of cases, it takes more than one week for online platforms to take down illegal content," said Mariya Gabriel, the EU's top official in charge of the digital economy and society.
The Commission said it will consider implementing new laws to tackle the problem if the online platforms fail to "take swift action over the coming months."
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/technology/hate-speech-facebook-twitter-europe/index.html
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:49PM (18 children)
Hate is not maladaptive. You descend from uncountably many generations of haters. Hate is in your DNA.
Those you failed to hate were driven to extinction. They failed to pass on their DNA.
If you don't hate, you will be replaced by those who do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:57PM
This illustrates the nature of Fermi's paradox.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @07:02PM (5 children)
You fail to distinguish between different kinds of hatred; some forms are justified and others are not. I don't think hating someone because of the color of their skin is justifiable. Also, you can take action without succumbing to thought-inhibiting emotions.
I don't support EU hate speech laws, but come on.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @10:20PM (1 child)
Any indicator of shared DNA matters.
Genetically, your life is worth that of two siblings or eight cousins. The less DNA shared, the less somebody is worth.
Any indicator will do. If somebody has the same eye color as you, they are more similar than otherwise. If they also have or lack milk tolerance, or if they are of similar height, or they have a similar hairline, or they have similar earlobe shape... anything at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @12:17AM
I'm only talking about morality here. I am not interested in the conflation of nature and evolution with morality, which are separate things. Humans have evolved with tendencies to do things that most would agree are bad, but that doesn't mean that people are wrong for thinking those particular actions are bad.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:42AM (2 children)
Translation: It's alright to hate those that I hate, but if you hate what I like, then you are evil. Got it.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday September 30 2017, @03:19AM
The two ACs may be immoral racist assholes, but they are not wrong with regards to evolution. Favouring those that are genetically similar to you is something that would be selected for.
To really understand evolution you need to put aside all arguments except pure utilitarianism at the gene level. The sole question is "Will this genetic trait result in more copies of the relevent gene in the next generation?". That's it. No morals, no strategy, no "benefit to the species", no goals.
If hating people who look different results in higher reproductive success at the gene level then it will be selected for.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @12:12AM
Well, who actually argues that you have to tolerate everyone? Do you tolerate murderers? Because I don't. Do you tolerate racists? I don't like them. We all have our own standards, even if you would not like to admit it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @07:25PM (9 children)
Hate is in all of our DNA.
If you are blatantly inferior to the rest of us, then we hate you.
Sorry. Nothing Personal. Just one of the wise things practiced since the dawn of time. Civilized peoples don't like savages. Deal with it.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @07:48PM
So your chances of procreating are 1 in 10^37? Better luck next life.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 29 2017, @09:17PM (7 children)
It's true, we don't, but I don't *hate* you. Mostly I just pity you...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:45AM (6 children)
Correction: Mostly you pity them so you want to pass your own form of authoritarian laws to subject the savages to your own ideas of "civilized" conduct. It isn't necessary to hate to be an authoritarian asshole. It is only necessary to understand that you're better and smarter than everyone else.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday September 30 2017, @04:31AM (5 children)
What the hell, Runaway. Stop projecting. I know I'm not better or smarter than everyone else. And stop assuming I want to pass laws like that; it's a strawman. You don't know me personally, or you'd know I've got a "live and let die" streak that borders on libertarian, at least on the personal level. I've been watching the upswing of hate speech laws with more than a little trepidation, as it's just about the mother of all slippery slopes.
That said, I believe censorship is stupid; the best way to deal with stinkin' thinking is to get it out in the open where it can be ridiculed as it deserves. You, by the way, are exhibit B :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:12PM (4 children)
No, I am NOT an exhibitionist. Are you projecting here?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @08:19PM (3 children)
At least we found the limits of your education. Stopped at "E" apparently :D
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 01 2017, @04:00AM (2 children)
This isn't a case of intellectual debility. Runaway's state of mind has been steadily worsening over the last 6 weeks or so if his posts are any indication. He's said virtually nothing insightful, is committing fallacies he never used to, and is starting to attack people out of the blue, as you saw above...and not even with anything that works. I seriously think he's having some kind of substance abuse issue or other similar life problem right now,
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @06:44AM (1 child)
That's nice. So when do you hang out your shingle and start taking patients, Doc?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 01 2017, @10:12PM
Considering I already have a 50+ hour workweek and no psychology degree, not any time soon.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday October 02 2017, @11:44AM
Aaand yes, today's idiocy is, of course, courtesy of an AC.
You need to do rather better than that if you want to make a real case for social Darwinism.