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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   
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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• Re:++Good (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:57PM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:57PM (#354030) Journal

  "He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones," is a good policy.

  I will say though that when somebody is trying to make an argument consistent grammatical and spelling errors will rob it of its force. For my part I am often grateful no such consensus exists about the rules of punctuation; there are areas of agreement but beyond those the niceties vary widely. I like Strunk & White while others prefer the Chicago Manual of Style, et cetera.

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  Washington DC delenda est.

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