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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: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:46AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:46AM (#353996) Journal

    You'll get some people calling you an anti-semite. Which is probably true in your case. But it's certainly NOT illegal, and often not censored depending on where you're posting.

    It's as good as censorship. It's character assassination, shunning, and other targeted attempts to take you down. Look at what happened to Walt and Mearsheimer when they wrote their paper, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy [uchicago.edu]." The paper's premise was that the United States has no real strategic interest in Israel, not as a major trading partner, not as a supplier of strategically important commodities or products, etc. Now, Walt and Mearsheimer are the fathers of modern International Relations, but they were decried as anti-semites for their paper and smeared in a thousand ways, despite it having been very well researched and based on rock-solid facts.

    Look at what happened to Jimmy Carter after his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid [wikipedia.org]." Again, he was denigrated as an anti-semite and smeared in a thousand ways, despite the fact he's done more for Israel's security in the last 70 years through his Camp David Accords.

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