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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: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:59AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Thursday June 02 2016, @09:59AM (#353955) Homepage Journal

    I will just leave this here.

    Cyber Violence Against Women [unwomen.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:43PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:43PM (#354096)

    Fails in the link title. "Cyber Violence" is a contradiction in terms unless you are controlling an armed drone over the Internet or some shit like that, that also kinda breaks the language since there ain't nothing 'Cyber' about a Hellfire missile dropping outta the sky.

    • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:53PM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:53PM (#354100) Homepage Journal

      Not a fail when "Tech Giants Vow To Tackle Online Hate Speech". Or you thought it was all about nigger and faggot? This is UN we are talking about.

      Online Attacks On Women To Be Treated As Violence: Maneka Gandhi to NDTV [ndtv.com] - Here is a sample of what's coming.

      • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:06PM

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday June 02 2016, @04:06PM (#354108)

        Just getting to the root and attacking the language and rejecting their premise. Everything Progs do not like is now violence. Look at one the wrong way and they are 'triggered' and running off to their 'safe space' to file charges against you for your violent assault against them. Which would just be funny if the police didn't more often that not actually show up on your doorstep.