SoylentNews

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.

---

Original Submission

• Re:Who among you? (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:30PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday June 02 2016, @02:30PM (#354069) Homepage Journal

  " We'd have never believed the boot would come, but that it would be on the left foot instead."

  Spread the word, far and wide. The left really isn't very different from the right. https://casescorner.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boot_govmnt_l-r-nodiff_onblk_248x246.png?w=248&h=246 [wordpress.com]

  --
  Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.

  Parent

  Starting Score:	1		point
  Moderation		+1
  Insightful=1, Total=1
  Extra 'Insightful' Modifier		0
  Karma-Bonus Modifier		+1
  Total Score:		3