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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: 4, Informative) by Vanderhoth on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:06AM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:06AM (#353981)

    Partly right with the Voat migration. I don't think anything you said is incorrect, but the Voat migration stopped when the person being blamed for all the censorship and crap that was going on on Reddit (Ellen Pao) was let go / resigned. In hindsight she was really just a scapegoat. She did have some hand in the events (firing a really well liked community manager) that lead to mass protests (major subs that went private) and the initial migration to Voat, but she wasn't the sole provocateur, she was just the face of the shitty decisions that were being made.

    Also Voat wasn't really equipped to handle the massive amount of traffic they started getting. There were days I'd go to Voat several times a day (I just keep tabs open) and the whole day was spent refreshing the "be patient" message, I eventually just stopped going. Since things on Reddit more or less went back to normal after Pao left, there was no reason to keep going to Voat to see if they'd upgraded their servers.

    I also agree with you AC was full of it. I didn't see any "hate speech" going on on Voat, no more so than what I see on Reddit or any other internet forum.

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