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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: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:01AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:01AM (#353939) Homepage
    I think Hitchins is brilliant, and hadn't seen that debate before, so thanks for the link. He meanders a little over time, as he has favourite things that he likes to veer towards. I think that Rowan Atkinson here stays closer to the topic in this, as he has less flexibility to meander: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gciegyiLYtY .

    However, he doesn't address the "who judges" issue that Hitchens covers, and which was your point. But that's only the cherry on top of the counter argument, the counter argument should be "is it even right to do at all?", as if you can settle that argument with in the negative, who judges is irrelevant.

    To use an example that at least Hitchens might appreciate: compare arguing against theism by simply arguing for atheism versus arguing that you can't decide which of the deities is the right one. Surely "0" is better than "can't decide which one"?
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