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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, @06:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @06:50AM (#353888)

    Remove Kebab! - See?

    Return all Tacos! - Get it?

    Build Wall and Cholos will pay for it -- or else the CIA will run their drugs right through their neigborhoods rather than South of the Border while demonstrating why we need such a wall to Make Mexico Great Again so the migrantes don't have to flee from their homes in the first place.

    Ah, see, now that is hate speech. Fuck fixing Mexico so that people have decent lives down there free from drug lords! Hell no! We Democrats need those migrants to swarm across the border like so many ants running from a devastating flood of violence and poverty... Why? Because they typically vote left! The right are RACISTS! They want the Mexcians to be able to STAY in THEIR HOMES in MEXICO and be PROSPEROUS so they don't have to FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES! NO NO NO! Fuck that! WE NEED THEM HERE in the USA, and anyone who says otherwise is promoting Trump's HATE SPEECH!

    Protip: Trump wants to make Syria great again by saving the money we'd spend on migrants here to rebuild and secure Syria instead. Trump wants to make make Mexico Great Again too, along with America, since the drug cartel controlled government's can't seem to give the people what they've been crying out for... and what the Mexicans are already doing on their border with Guatemala (build a big wall to keep out the illegals).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:28PM (#354020)

    Trump has no intention of building the wall. That's why he keeps insisting that Mexico will pay for it.

    No funds = No Wall.

    Hey, he reserves the right to change his mind, as he's already reminded us (after he sowed up the nomination, of course). Go read up on Trump University on how he treats people infatuated with the idea of Trump improving their lives.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:59PM (#354241)
      we give mexico 500 million in aid a year.

      how much wall can you build for 500 million a year?