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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 02 2016, @01:12PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 02 2016, @01:12PM (#354036) Journal

    That "fantasy world" is gone now, and I'll bet most people under 30 could hardly believe such a place ever existed the way it did.

    It was that way once, and it can be again. But we have to make it so.

    Let's recall though that at the time of the BBS'es it was at the tail-end of the 80's, the Reagan years, with all of its in-your-face machismo, war mongering, Christian Right Triumphalism. The BBS'es were themselves an escape from that daily reality. It was the nerds like us that built those and grew them into the Internet. We were the vanguard of greater freedom then, and we can still be if we choose to.

    The people that discourage the stuff we create and discourage freedom of speech and all other aspects of freedom are stupid, reactionary, and slow. They used to have us on muscle, but now that we have robots, it's possible for us to create a future where we're not out-muscled either. Having lots of money is what they still have, so a good step toward taking their power away would be to find ways to make their money meaningless.

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