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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @05:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @05:15AM (#353849)

    There, there, fellow AC! It is alright! We can stroke your ego, no matter how twisted it is, if only you give up the hate. It is easy. Here, this is a transgendered ego stroker here to stroke your ego. Now does that feel bad? No, of course it doesn't! Now here is a fundamentalist Christian to stroke you, . . . whoa! Did not think it was going to go down that way! OK, moving on!!! Here is a member of ISIS to stroke you. Now I know that homo stuff is totally verboten in the Nazi Army, I mean, in Isis, but he really thinks you have a purty mouth! Sorry about the decapitation thing. Once you realize how loving all these guys in the Men's rights Movement, and ISIS are, you will not hate them at all! Except for the fact that they all, just like Fundie Christians, Catholic Bishops, Penn State coaches, and Libertarian Preverts, make you their bitch. You down with that?