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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 Gravis on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:26PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:26PM (#354066)

    machines.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:38PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:38PM (#354072)

    Machines aren't "whos." They're "whats."

    At least until somebody makes an AI that can pass the Turing Test.

    --
    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

    • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:47PM

      by Gravis (4596) on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:47PM (#354099)

      then the question was discriminatory! ;)