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Tech Giants Vow to Tackle Online Hate Speech Within 24 Hours

posted by takyon on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the quick-to-censor dept.

jmorris writes:

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by sjwt on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:54AM

    by sjwt (2826) on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:54AM (#353805)

    Its good to see more sanctioned action that is fairly defined to be fully inclusive of helping 99%+ of the population... good thing so few people are Caucasian straight and non-jewish.. it would be a sham if groups like that where of any significant proportion of the population and totally ignored by the implantation of anti hate speech rules.

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  • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:22AM

    by davester666 (155) on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:22AM (#353925)

    The easy solution will be for a startup to create a hate-speech filter api, that everybody else can use [you pass in a message/posting/whatever, and it returns a ok/not ok]. Naturally, the MPAA, RIAA, Facebook, Google and the US gov't will all have to work together to create the algorithm used.

    And no, you can't see it, and complaints will be handled by the same department handling requests to be removed from the no-fly list, since they have a bunch of free time after creating their auto-responder "We have received your request and are evaluating it. We cannot inform you of the results of the evaluation because we don't want to tell you."