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

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: 2) by nyder on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:29AM

    by nyder (4525) on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:29AM (#353879)

    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?

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 02 2016, @07:27AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 02 2016, @07:27AM (#353901) Journal

    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

      by nyder (4525) on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:09AM (#353923)

      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

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:37AM (#353931) Journal

        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

          by nyder (4525) on Thursday June 02 2016, @08:57AM (#353937)

          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

            by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:13AM (#353940) Journal

            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

              by nyder (4525) on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:37AM (#353947)

              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.