EU and tech giants Google, Facebook, etc.. to ban loosely defined online "hate speech"

[WorldofWarcraft]

.....and so it begins...

I know Germany has been working to stop online criticism of refugees for awhile now.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-to-tackle-online-hate-speech-within-24-hours

A French Jewish youth group, UEJF, sued Twitter, Facebook and Google in Paris this month over how they monitor hate speech on the web. In the course of about six weeks in April and May, members of French anti-discrimination groups flagged unambiguous hate speech that they said promoted racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism. More than 90 percent of the posts pointed out to Twitter and YouTube remained online within 15 days on average following requests for removal, according to the study by UEJF, SOS Racisme and SOS Homophobie.

 

[Primitivo]

YouTube comment section will make less sense now.

 

[Fawlty]

You've completely misread the article like you do basically every article you have ever posted. They're talking about responding to violations of their already-existing policy quicker.

 

[SammyPops]

lol any EU sherdoggers will miss like 3/4 of all the WR threads.

 

[IDL]

Europeans will need to flee to Russia to escape the iron curtain

 

[Lead]

lol any EU sherdoggers will miss like 3/4 of all the WR threads.

Just got to the dump and you can already see the war room is only like half of what gets put it

 

[Skip Reming]

.....and so it begins...

I know Germany has been working to stop online criticism of refugees for awhile now.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-to-tackle-online-hate-speech-within-24-hours

the thing is that there is hate speech and then there is just the facts and not hate speech

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Just let it be a complete free for all (minus posting personal information about someone else) and if people get offended they can just form a rebuttal or not visit the website

 

[TheGreatA]

Chances are that they will still retain the ISIS beheading photos, they'll just get rid of the mean posts suggesting that men should be using men's toilets.

 

[Metusalemi]

the thing is that there is hate speech and then there is just the facts and not hate speech

Anything can be hate speech if you're tolerant enough.

 

[lifelessheap]

the thing is that there is hate speech and then there is just the facts and not hate speech

To most liberals facts are hate speech.

 

[klnOmega]

I hate the phrase "hate speech". It just seems like something straight out of the Newspeak Dictionary.

 

[djacobox372]

The sad fact is, in countries that don't have free speech (which includes france and germany), companies are forced to conform to the laws or not do business.

The stance of these companies often is that it's better that they begrudgingly follow the rules and then continue to lobby against and complain about the rules than to allow some other, less progressive, company fill the gap and endanger their place in the market.

 

[Falsedawn]

To most liberals facts are hate speech.

Ironic, considering that this is coming from the political ideology who thinks that academia is a tool for liberal indoctrination.

 

[JonnyRingo84]

the thing is that there is hate speech and then there is just the facts and not hate speech

well, people like hitler would have said the same thing, is the problem with this comment. every racist douche thinks that their reasons for being a racist douche are legitimate.

with that said, i think people should have the right to openly be a racist douche......but.......companies need to be able to protect their company from your racist comments, as well.

 

[lifelessheap]

Ironic, considering that this is coming from the political ideology who thinks that academia is a tool for liberal indoctrination.

The university system in the US is certainly not a tool for conservative indoctrination. It was 100% radical liberal when I went to college.

 

[Falsedawn]

The university system in the US is certainly not a tool for conservative indoctrination. It was 100% radical liberal when I went to college.

I went to one of the most conservative colleges in the nation. You're not going to be able to sell me on that bullshit.

 

[klnOmega]

Ironic, considering that this is coming from the political ideology who thinks that academia is a tool for liberal indoctrination.

Sorry, my university safespace blocked your post. Could you repost it?

 

[Falsedawn]

Sorry, my university safespace blocked your post. Could you repost it?

Don't you know book lernin' is for them damn libruls boyo? All you need is the good book and a snuff in your lip. Life aint much more complex n' that.

 

[uncommon]

War rooms stock just went up 10 points