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posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @09:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the Thin-blue-racist-line dept.

Facebook may be trying to censor hate-speech, but others are putting it to good use.

From CNN

Law enforcement agencies in Dallas and Florida on Thursday became the latest to announce they are investigating allegations some of their employees made offensive comments on Facebook after a watchdog group compiled screenshots of the posts and shared them in an online database.

The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.

[...] Since its founding in 2017, the Plain View Project says it has compiled images of more than 5,000 social media posts and comments by more than 3,500 current and former police officers in eight jurisdictions throughout the US.
Researchers obtained rosters of police officers and then looked them up on Facebook, according to the project's website.

After examining the profiles to confirm they belonged to police officers, they reviewed public posts and comments to see if they would "undermine public trust and confidence in police."


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 21 2019, @02:30PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 21 2019, @02:30PM (#858550) Journal

    I scrolled down for awhile. Some of that shit is over the edge. As much as I despise George Soros - government agents at any level shouldn't be doxxing Soros, and advocating his assassination. For you, or me, or any other private citizen to do so would expose us to terroristic threats charges. These guys? Well, they're cops, they can't be charged. But, they shouldn't be on LEO payroll, either.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 22 2019, @01:00AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday June 22 2019, @01:00AM (#858721) Homepage

    Everybody says things that are "over the edge." Have you ever had a bad day and said something like, "I want to kill that damn woman!" Of course you weren't going to kill that damn woman. People vent nonviolently, and they say irrational and often violent things and imagine nonsensical scenarios that everybody in attendance knows won't happen.

    The thing about social media is that people make the mistake of carrying over what should be said privately and in person between close personal friends, into the public sphere at large. I'm one of those people who believes that, if something is said online, as long as it is not directed specifically towards one person, then it should be treated the same and laughed-at if not disregarded. Unfortunately, there are some with thin skin who believe free speech should be heavily regulated over the internet, and that jokes that were all over TV only 10 years ago should be considered "hate speech" and warrant a life-long blacklist similar to that of the sex-offense registry.

    There have been a few recent cases, one of a pro athlete and one of a Harvard applicant come to mind. They posted something when they were teenagers, and out comes the ̶J̶e̶w̶i̶s̶h̶ outrage patrol seeking to cast them out of society for the rest of their lives.

    About this "Plain View Project" though, it smells Jewey. It has the same Black/White color scheme as the CIA/Mossad-run Washington Post and New York Times. I bet if its cadre bothered to volunteer their real names, it would read like the SPLC's "about us" page, about 40 Jewish names followed by token 2 Black names.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 22 2019, @01:54PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 22 2019, @01:54PM (#858838) Journal

      I'm not sure - have you ever worn a uniform? I know you're familiar with troops, but, you?

      Anyway, while I wore the uniform, I was perfectly free to vent when I needed to. There were times and places when venting had to be done in very respectful ways, if at all. There were times and places when venting was verboten. And, there were many times and places when you could vent all you wanted, quite freely.

      The general rules about politics, for instance: You, as a private citizen, may endorse any candidate you care to endorse, and you may donate your personal resources as you see fit. But, you MAY NOT use any government resources in any way. You MAY NOT attend a political function in uniform. You may not even identify as a member of the armed forces, while performing duties for your political party. On and on it goes.

      Here? We have cops, who are active duty, on a public forum, endorsing political and other positions, in a manner that might almost be taken as a semi-official position. Read down through that page, and tell me how much cops love Moslems. Do you not see a problem with that?

      If/when government takes an anti-Islam position, and decides to boot Muslims out of this country, THEN, cops can be expected, and excused for, voicing those opinions. Until then, cops have no business associating such an attitude with their police departments, or with law enforcement in general.

      TLDR: many of those posts are examples of piss-poor discipline.