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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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Life is not for everyone.
(Score: 5, Funny) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:33AM
First they come for the Hate Speech, which is cool, because it sucks.
Then they come for people who don't follow the crowd, which isn't cool, because that is me.
Then they come for people who's political ideas are different then there own, which doesn't affect me, because they already took me.
Then you have 1984, but copyright doesn't allow you to say it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:55AM
people who don't follow the crowd, which isn't cool, because that is me
by nyder (4525)
Liar, you have a registered account, you goddamn crowd follower! You're a fucking sheep. Baaaa baaa baaaaaaaaa.
(Score: 2) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:26AM
No, a follow would be those who are afraid to stand behind what they say, thus the Anonymous Cowards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:11PM
Lay off of the sheep, you goat fucker!
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:58AM
No, you are thinking of Martin Niemöller. And it ain't 1984 at the end of that, its Hitler. So at least there is no copyright problem.. copyright lawyers are worse than Illinois Nazis ya know.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:00AM
Everybody knows copyright is enforced by Jew Lawyers, and if Hitler(redux) is in charge then obviously the Jewish problem had been dealt with. Without said lawyers copyright is enforced at gunpoint, unless you offer up your daughter to the officer in charge of punishing you, or have a large thriving business in copyright infringement and offer to wet his beak instead.
:)
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @05:01AM
Then they came for the people who did not know the difference between "there" and "there", or for that matter between "then" and "than", and so, nothing of value was lost. Why cannot the superior race spell there own language prophetically?
(Score: 2) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:29AM
First off, I have dyslexia & ADHD, so I am bound to make some mistakes. If the least of my mistakes is using their instead of there, or vice versa, then I feel I am doing good.
Second, with education always lacking enough funds, are you surprised that people who have been thru the underfunded education system to make mistakes?
Third. Who the fuck cares, right?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @07:27AM
Dislexia, eh? Welcome to the club, bro! Can'r read one way to the other, but still manage to make sense of things. But I often suspect that it is not some learning disability that is to blame, but rather a dis-ability at learning! Please view Weird Al Yankovic on Word Crimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc [youtube.com] Heh, heh.
(Score: 2) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:09AM
You apparently know nothing about dyslexia and more important, you know nothing about ADHD. If you bothered to learn instead of being a grammar nazi, you'd know that dyslexia doesn't just cover how you see words, and better yet, if you knew anything about ADHD, you'd understand how easy it is for me to get confused by which words are what to use, when they are similar. But that's okay, because I expect such behaviors on people who feel it's important to correct peoples grammar.
(Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:37AM
Well, obviously you do not know that I have had dyslexia, and some kind of disorder for two and a half millenium, so I would suggest that you go and learn how to speak, and spell, and type, and communicate, because otherwise it appears that you are a self-pitying case of fail. Get some discipline, you illiterate idiot! Yes, it is harder for those of us with the conditions, but we end up better as the result of the struggle, and less tolerant of the slackers who claim to have our disabilities in order to cover for their laziness! Have some respect for grammar nazis who have had to work very hard to get there! (yes, there, not "their", or "they're"). Props, you loser! Give them up!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:57AM
Dude, shut the fuck up. You are the retard who went to correct me and fucked up yourself.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:13AM
Ah! And you think that was not intentional? C'mon, nyder, chill out and just stop being a racist. It's not hard, all the rest of us have done it, and we still are intact.
(Score: 2, Troll) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:37AM
Nope, wasn't intentional, you are just a piece of shit person, a grammar nazi that tried to show someone up, but fucked up himself. Now you are doubling down on stupid.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:07AM
Then they came for the people who did not know the difference between "there" and "there"
I believe you meant [wikipedia.org]: "there" and "their" :]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:24AM
Yes, of course, that is what I meant. Seriously.
(Score: 2, Funny) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:27AM
Well, fucking let me know when the superior race gets here, because you ain't it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:17AM
I love it when Grammar Nazis try to correct people and massively fuck up. No one's perfect and we should all be a little more tolerant when people make mistakes. In most cases it's pretty easy to tell when someone meant "their" but wrote "there" by accident. A simple question, without being a jerk about it, can clear it up if it was a mistake and made the sentence unclear. If someone does it consistently a polite message asking if what they meant was "their" is much better than going all holier than thou condescending asshole, then screw up yourself. Which, IMHO, deserves relentless mocking.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:57PM
"He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones," is a good policy.
I will say though that when somebody is trying to make an argument consistent grammatical and spelling errors will rob it of its force. For my part I am often grateful no such consensus exists about the rules of punctuation; there are areas of agreement but beyond those the niceties vary widely. I like Strunk & White while others prefer the Chicago Manual of Style, et cetera.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:15PM
We're here - and for the most part, we don't care much about spelling. But, it can be fun to kick someone around now and then, using their spelling as an excuse.
BTW - never eat the troll bait.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:25AM
oh that's great, I didn't even notice that. Grammar nazi fucked up himself. what a loser.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:50PM
Also possible: "there" and "they're."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by art guerrilla on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:08AM
*sigh*
so tired of this bee ess:
there is no such thing as 'hate speech', there is speech, there is hate, and speech CAN be hateful (that is why we have speech, after all: to EXPRESS ourselves, not just our angels), but that hate is TOTALLY in the ear of the behearer (?)...
there is hate, there is crime, but there is no such thing as 'hate crime'...
(IF there IS such a thing as 'hate crime', please tell me what a 'love crime' is, then...)
for the millionth time, you stupid fucking inertnet moral scolds: you have the right to NOT be assaulted; you do NOT have the right to NOT be insulted...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:07PM
The Canadian hate speech law doesn't forbid expressing hatred. It forbids knowingly spreading false news in order to incite hatred. And "knowingly" and "false" can be hard to prove.