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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 01 2020, @07:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the false-positives dept.

University of Cambridge researchers are hoping to launch technology that blocks online "hate speech" similar to how an antivirus program stops malicious code.

Thanks to researchers at the University of Cambridge, the largest social media companies in the world may soon have the ability to preemptively quarantine content classified by an algorithm as "hate speech"." On October 14, 2019, researcher Stephanie Ullmann and professor Marcus Tomalin published a proposal in the Ethics and Information Technology journal promoting an invention that they claim could accomplish this goal without infringing on individual rights of free speech. Their proposal involves software that uses an algorithm to identify "hate speech" in much the same way an antivirus program detects malware. It would then be up to the viewer of such content to either leave it in quarantine or view it.

The basic premise is that online "hate speech" is as harmful in its way as other forms of harm (physical, emotional, financial...), and social media companies should intercept it before it can do that harm, rather than post-facto by review.

Tomalin's proposal would use a sophisticated algorithm which would evaluate not just the content itself, but also all content posted by the user to determine if a post might be classifiable as "hate speech". If not classified as potential "hate speech", the post occupies the social media feed like any regular post. If the algorithm flags it as possible "hate speech", it will then flag the post as potential hate speech, making it so that readers must opt-in to view the post. A graph from the proposal illustrates this process.

The alert to the reader will identify the type of "hate speech" potentially classified in the content as well as a "Hate O'Meter" to show how offensive the post is likely to be.

The goal of the researchers is to have a working prototype available in early 2020 and, assuming success and subsequent social media company adoptions, intercepting traffic in time for the 2020 elections.


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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday January 02 2020, @06:20PM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Thursday January 02 2020, @06:20PM (#938725) Journal

    4th and 5th amendments are gone if you are on the list, see my journal and this:

    https://archive.is/YkJr8 [archive.is]

    You have now been warned by someone who reports this first hand, if you have questions contact me.

    It is however apparent to me that the way you get on the list is by having 'ideas', aka wrongthink in the classic totalitarian sense, that is defined in secret so you are in a trap thinking you can speak freely, and a dangerous one. A diabolical one.

    Which means that the free speech and free assembly are gone also, I sincerely doubt thomas jefferson would think an assembly is 'free' if there are 50 undercover agents there trying to disrupt it, that is what we have.

    The way this is going in media owned by jewish people is that all free speech leads directly to nazism, and irrational hatred of jewish people, and so the only way forward is to carve a vast exception to the first amendment around the expansive, bullshit term anti-semitism. And we are seeing this propaganda tidal wave in full motion as I write this, while at the same time try to find a single article on huffington post that mentions Jeffrey Epstein was jewish and hung out with Ehud Barak, or that Trumps entire administration is puppeted by israeli zionist jews who pretend they are white supremecists.

    All the oligarchs can do to hide now post panama papers and epstein is to light the entire journalism industry and free culture on fire with hypernormalized linquistic bullshit.

    https://archive.is/QBVQJ [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/GBoQt [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/HTALt [archive.is]
    https://archive.ph/aSHRw [archive.ph]
    https://archive.ph/cPx5h [archive.ph]
    https://archive.is/ET5w1 [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/G3JtL [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/OPkTH [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/N15xT [archive.is] (this is what we are ultimately facing, join in a totalitarian empire with zionism that does all nazi warcrimes, or be called nazi by people doing this, and I have picked my side.)

    https://archive.is/FMvgZ [archive.is]
    https://archive.is/G3JtL [archive.is] (these two go together quite nicely)

    Real american values of tolerance, like I show to jewish people who campaign for the 'end of the white race' including Jordan Peterson and Noel Ignatiev, and safe harbor laws, so someone can't just post something obscene or violent just to get your site shut down, are obvious solutions. But as with .org, they do not want solutions, they want automated push-button population control mechanisms and idea-eradication mechanisms, which we should resist or face being enslaved in a living hell.

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