Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content (nytimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes: In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has proposed the creation of 'tools' to stop or limit the spread of messages and content intended to recruit terrorists. Schmidt says: "We should build tools to help de-escalate tensions on social media — sort of like spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment. We should target social accounts for terrorist groups like the Islamic State, and remove videos before they spread, or help those countering terrorist messages to find their voice."

Schmidt does not enlarge on whether he is talking about AI-driven systems capable of understanding thought well enough to make value judgments on it, or of the problems involved in auto-censoring speech in order to promote his vision of a new rapport between cultures on the internet.

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Re:Oh, for cryin' out loud....

[Qzukk]

and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

There's an entire crowd of people who think the First Amendment should be cancelled, while they cling tightly to the Second. It does not occur to them that whatever legal trick they use to eliminate the amendments they don't want will be used on the ones they do.