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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   
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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• Re:Oh Goodie, Legislating Morality! (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @05:24AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @05:24AM (#353854)

  > Barely. The EU can neither create nor enforce any laws.

  I had to look it up, to my embarrassment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union#Legal_system [wikipedia.org]

  > Acts
  >
  > The main legal acts of the EU come in three forms: regulations, directives, and decisions. Regulations become law in all member states the moment they come into force, without the requirement for any
  > implementing measures,[ and automatically override conflicting domestic provisions.[ Directives require member states to achieve a certain result while leaving them discretion as to how to achieve the result.
  > The details of how they are to be implemented are left to member states.[m] When the time limit for implementing directives passes, they may, under certain conditions, have direct effect in national law against
  > member states.

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