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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: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:09AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:09AM (#353872) Journal

    Stick to SN - no problem to be solved then.

    Oh, my lord, you pathetic bastard! Do you not realize that the overwhelming majority of SN are SJWs? There are like three posters who complain about SJWs, but they are three out of thousands. We will problem you! We will arrange for you to get your racist and misogynist head out of your ass, against your will, if necessary. Are you really so dense as to not see this? Seriously? Well, hang on! It is gonna be a hell of a ride.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @01:03PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 02 2016, @01:03PM (#354033) Journal

    "SJW" = "Single Jewish Women?"

    I'm not single, Jewish, or a woman...

    "SJW" = "Sexy Jordanian Wrestler?"

    I don't wrestle, don't come from Jordan, but the sexy is arguable.

    Am I in the wrong place? ;-)

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    Washington DC delenda est.