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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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Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:58PM
Of course the most motivated users, i.e. the banned, migrate first to a new platform. Why do you think Tor is also a cesspit? They think they can swap pedo pics without being busted and those guys were instantly the early adopters. Illegal drugs were the mainstay of Silk Road. Hell, for the first decade the majority of Internet traffic was porn and 'piracy.' Then it became spam and now at last the majority of traffic is 'legitimate' content but it is Netflix. Wow, what an improvement, can we get the pirates and porn back?
The forking problem is the network effect in reverse. Until reddit, twitter, facebook, etc. manage to piss off a critical mass a fork will languish. But once a critical mass moves and begins a new network effect it will cascade quickly. See MySpace.