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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, 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.

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  • (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.