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We have heard the rumblings, now it comes.... the Code of Conduct for social media along with the banhammer.
From Bloomberg we get this warning:
U.S. Internet giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp. pledged to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists.
Of course terrorists are defined down to "unambiguous hate speech that they said promoted racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism" before the short article ends.
Buckle up folks, the ride is is about to get bumpy.
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Tech Giants Vow to Tackle Online Hate Speech Within 24 Hours
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:50AM
This seems like the sort of faux pas that will open the door for new social media sites, operating systems, and network services companies.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:02AM
Oh no, that's specifically to be addressed through the UN since it is a worldwide problem.
You can see the preliminary reports. It's on my "C" drive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:53AM
They are already doing that for coastal water laws. Same place they expanded it to the current 200 mile limit with coastal shelf extensions, before making the rules global.
The UN is just the superpowers way of fucking us all over by giving the little guy a shortsighted advantage in order to take a bigger share of the pie for themselves in the long term.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:59AM
I will just leave this here.
Cyber Violence Against Women [unwomen.org]
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:43PM
Fails in the link title. "Cyber Violence" is a contradiction in terms unless you are controlling an armed drone over the Internet or some shit like that, that also kinda breaks the language since there ain't nothing 'Cyber' about a Hellfire missile dropping outta the sky.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:53PM
Not a fail when "Tech Giants Vow To Tackle Online Hate Speech". Or you thought it was all about nigger and faggot? This is UN we are talking about.
Online Attacks On Women To Be Treated As Violence: Maneka Gandhi to NDTV [ndtv.com] - Here is a sample of what's coming.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:06PM
Just getting to the root and attacking the language and rejecting their premise. Everything Progs do not like is now violence. Look at one the wrong way and they are 'triggered' and running off to their 'safe space' to file charges against you for your violent assault against them. Which would just be funny if the police didn't more often that not actually show up on your doorstep.