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Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU
Tech giants in conjunction with European Union are taking a stand to fight hate speech. Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook have launched "code of conduct" aimed at fighting racism and xenophobia across Europe. The companies aren't legally obligated, but have agreed to "public commitments" to review the "majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech" in less than 24 hours, and make it easier for law enforcement in Europe to notify the firms directly. From a TechCrunch report: Tech companies will have to find the right balance between freedom of expression and hateful content. Based on the code of conduct, they'll have dedicated teams reviewing flagged items (poor employees who will have to review awful things every day). Tech companies will also educate their users and tell them that it's forbidden to post hateful content. They'll cooperate with each other to share best practice. They'll encourage flagging of hateful content and they'll promote counter speech against hateful rhetoric. It's good to see that this issue got escalated and the European Commission was able to come up with a code of conduct quite quickly. Instead of making tech companies deal with every single European country, they can agree on rules for the EU as a whole."The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech," Vera Jourova, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, wrote in the European Commission press release. "Social media is unfortunately one of the tools that terrorist groups use to radicalise young people and racist use to spread violence and hatred. This agreement is an important step forward to ensure that the internet remains a place of free and democratic expression, where European values and laws are respected."
No slippery slope here, no sir.
:T:R:A:N:S:
hate speech is removed by EU!
...the first comments removed will be any anti-microsoft comments. So much for the year of linux on the desktop...
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
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This agreement is an important step forward to ensure that the internet remains a place of free and democratic expression, where European values and laws are respected.
So, European values don't actually include free expression. Will bouncing back and forth between these too opposing goals cause so much friction that the interwebs actually catch on fire?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Thank goodness. Now I am free to express my view that Emacs is the best editor and no one can attack me!
exactly. who gets to decide what hate speech is real and what is imagined? will facts equal hate speech??? will not believing in some political views equal hate speech???
this is going to go very very badly
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Does that include
I don't want these ##%^&(*&@ windows 10 updates
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
whenever a European gets on his high horse and whines about how he can't understand why XYZ is allowed in America or why Americans do this or that.
As a result I find myself laughing very often. Thanks Europeans!
... save us from those evil terroristststs. I think everyone should be locked up to their homes and never let out and internet taken away so that everyopne would be saved! Save us oh wise politicians!
You'll just drive that crap underground, where it will thrive out of view and fueled by a newly-validated persecution complex.
Removing hate speech from websites is like removing your shoes at the airport - a feel-good measure designed to provide the illusion that Someone Is Doing Something About This Problem.
We can't have the proletariat pointing out inconvenient truths, now, can we?
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.
When some hateful bigot is accused of "xenophobia", this incites hatred toward people with actual phobias. The mentally ill are being equated with crappy people who don't actually have a mental illness, and whose views perhaps deserve to be hated. Some people with actual phobias, diagnosed by actual doctors, get sick of the constant media comparisons to people who are motivated by hate. More like Hatebook IMO
He once inserted random mutations into his code, just so he could have the experience of debugging.
The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech
What? What speech was said that triggered the attacks? The attacks would have been done regardless of what anyone said.
Even if you buy into the nonsense the west is responsible for the attacks that is still because of something the west DID, not because of what they SAID.
In the end the "illegal online hate speech" will be anything that displeases the ruling class. History has shown us again and again how well it turns out when all news is just censored propaganda.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
i hate having to read about hate.
I will keep them busy then. I have much hate for Microsoft which I choose to express in violent terms involving tangible suffering for Microsoft executives for their abuse of customers by the purposefully engineered lack of choice regarding Windows 10 upgrade. That upgrade forced itself on my 91 year old father's computer and basically ruined his month. I have justified hate involving visions of pain and suffering for Microsoft employees. I'm so glad the EU will take Microsoft's money, but not allow customers to voice their objections,
The EU deserves every future severe consequence it is stupidly putting itself into with its big heart of good intentions.
How do the Jews stand to profit from this?
This will not stem the rising popularity of nationalists movements across European countries. If anything, it's going to stoke anti-immigration feelings even more.
George Orwell was right, he was just a man before his time... He should have titled his book 2016...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
You know who else didn't like free speech?
HITLER!
As Bill Gates might say, *Two minutes should be enough for everybody*
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I guess Donald Trump won't be permitted to enter the European Union anytime soon.
fuck off
Does their definition of Hate Speech include Advertising? Because I really that that sort of speech.
Let's all remember that this doesn't really REMOVE hate speech. It hides it, allowing us all to feel wonderful about ourselves and that we've "done something" about hate speech.
We haven't *actually* DONE anything.
Like Juncker's fantastically anti-democratic reaction to the threat of the Ã-FP victory in Austria (I won't allow any far-right reactionaries any power in the EU!), Europe seems to fundamentally "not get" how democracy works. When confronted with something unpleasant, they try to ban it.
The only cure for unpleasant speech is more speech. Anything else ultimately makes it worse.
-Styopa
Watch the first target be BDS. Watch.
This hypocritical, racist screed smacks of Muslim Jew-envy.
You wouldn't be Muslim by any chance?
Censorship *****.
" urgent need to address illegal online hate speech" to protect the internet and keep it "a place of free and democratic expression, where [a majority's] values and laws are respected." Yep, lets legislate some freedom!
"xenophobia across Europe."
Good luck. Also fight Trump instead...
Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric made this necessary -- well, that and the white trash to which it appeals. Fortunately, we are seeing increasingly rapid replacement of whites the world over by more vibrant populations that keep their women barefoot and pregnant. So this, quite reasonable, limitation of freedom of speech is only a temporary measure.
Seastead this.
If we adopt the Islamic State's views on freedom of speech, that will keep us safe from the big bad terrorists! It has worked just fine for the IS.
Hate Speech = not voteing our way!
Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Free Speech Across the EU
FTFY
Babies and bathwater, slippery slopes, boiling frogs, etc...
Outstanding! Thank you for that! This is exactly the type of hate speech that should be out in the open for all to see -- what a freaking idiot you are.
The Code of Conduct for those who don't wish to give TechCrunch a click, or just can't be bothered to clickthrough.
Muslims in the UK are free to rape without fear of prosecution as that would be hate speech.
Instead of the government censoring our comments, private industry will be forced to do it. 1984 is coming.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/11...
Seems what he is saying now qualifies as hate speech.
Facebook is already doing this in the USA. Monitors arbitrarily decide what is bad or not.
You know, at least Jews do not kill people at an airport or in a concert hall or mutilate their women.
The Jews are also not massively immigrating to the EU to take the taxpayer money and rape the women. And if a country does not like that, they are told that building fences is racist.
What should have happened is that the EU should have built a fence around itself with mines and machine guns, much like the Berlin wall, except this time to keep people out.
Now, the only hope we have is that the Germans elect a nationalist for the next term and he proceeds to throw all the migrants out. I am hoping for a large scale terror attack in Germany, so the ratings on nationalist parties go up.
This policy will make liberals very happy. Anything they don't like will be butthurt .
Given that hate speech these days is defined as "Things I don't agree with", this is simply going to end with those in charge deciding what people can and cannot talk about. I suppose it's a plus if your guys are the ones in charge, not so much if you're on the other side. I would say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I don't think there are even good intentions here. This is just a power grab by those in charge to shut up people they don't like. They're only using terrorism as a cover.
Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook ... aren't legally obligated, but have agreed ...
Great! A conspiracy of the major industry players to censor unpopular opinions from their services.
Seems to me, in the U.S., that would constitute an illegal cartel.
Remember when the Internet was going to improve freedom of speech? Apparently not in Europe.
Fortunately, the peer-to-peer approaches to conferencing still work. This just means that people using these commercial services, either to conference or to hunt for content, won't get to see or participate in the action - at least until they somehow find out about where it's going on.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
European values and laws are respected
Yea, didn't we fight a revolution to get rid of those things?
The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. You might not like the Nazis, but trying to silence them just makes the situation worse.
Look at the KKK in the USA, they are a joke. They have their little rallies and parades, but most people just roll their eyes at them. But if you tried to ban them, they would grow massively in support overnight.
So let the Nazis spew their hate speech in the light where everyone can laugh at it.
Just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, 'hate speech' is often in the ear of the listener. Like most people, limiting hate speech sounds really good to me if I get to define what subjects it covers. The political left loves to try and limit the groups it applies to. Say something bad about someone gay and you are a hater. Say something equally bad about a Christian, a gun owner, or a conservative, then that is free game. The only thing consistent, is the inconsistency.
Great timing...
http://prepareforchange.net/2016/05/29/israel-demands-world-internet-censorship/
It's neat to live long enough to watch society repeat old mistakes.
Those old dudes decided that speech is an inalienable right of humans for a reason, ya know? (Of course, even they didn't anticipate government prohibiting a plant.) There will be hate speech. The only place it's safe is out in the open where the speaker gets a broad audience and some fair feedback. Push it underground to small groups of people looking for it and you've got real problems brewing.
Call me whatever you want, just don't call me late for dinner!
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Here's a made up example: If after this, the EDL (English Defence League) rallies start yapping "We love the Muslamics* We want to give them cookies. They deserve cookies!", what then?
*just google for "edl muslamic"
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
Hate speech? Yea or nay?
Why not a system where it hides the comment, but leaves an option to view it like "This was flagged as abusive/spam, click to view"?
Perhaps if it used some sort of meta-tag system to describe what the comment contains too similar to how we already use them for SEO.
Censorship in general (of the written and spoken word at least) doesn't feel like a solution where "the end justifies the means".
But is that hate speech?
No difference as far as I can see.
You can go anywhere and say things that are politically correct for that area. You have free speech in North Korea, as long as you don't say anything politically incorrect.
Corporate governance over our lives is near complete already. Add your name to an effort to stop it non-violently while/if we can : http://www.movetoamend.org/
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
This is mind control, now they are going to tell us what to , and what not to say, I think we should all go on a "anti social media" group and fight back against this non sense. I don't need social media in my life to feel like something, that's what happens with government influence on these big corporations
Freedom of speech for politically correct speech only is not free speech. North Korea is better at "European values" than the EU, it would seem.
> So you either support terrorism posts on Twitter and Facebook (ISIL et al.) or you don't.
I very strongly support terrorists posting on Twitter.
A long time ago, I was a licensed private investigator and I did a bit of bounty hunting - finding people who asked a bail bondsman to out their bail, then skipped out leaving the bondsman holding the bag. Once in a while, some idiot fugitive would post a picture or location on Twitter or Facebook; "Hangin with my homies at Kirk's Bar". An hour later, the idiot would be in jail. I would very much like for terrorists to be as stupid.
...Tech giants in conjunction with the Reich are taking a stand to fight those damned Jews.
That's one thing better in 2016 than in 1984.
Freedom freedom freedom!
(except for niggers and faggots).
For years the so-called "progressives" have been arguing for a ban on "hate speech". It is already verbotten on most campuses.
On occasion, they may even threaten violence — while accusing "the haters" of making them "feel unsafe". Obviously, some hate is more equal than others.
When this generation graduates and goes on to work at businesses (including their legal departments), as well as government-institutions, they'll bring their notions with them.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
How can that be?
With millions of Jihadists working hand in h and with the PC crowd looking for 'hate speech' from the 'other side', how can there be any 'slippery slope', Sir?
But of course, PC-compliance slogans such as 'Behead those who insult Islam' are permitted
Borderline slogans such as 'Islam will dominate the world' will be permissible only if it is uttered by a moslem
... err who am I kidding... the Internet is owned by big content and you clowns don't stand a chance.
If ever there was a case for moving away from big content this would be it. Every light on the panel is flashing red.
"The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech", says some Eurocrat.
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich”, said the late Peter Ustinov.
I'd say centuries of imperialism and oligarchy have reminded us of the need to protect our freedoms from the super-rich.
I wonder if material like European politicians calling for the war on Libya, or supporting Israel's assorted plans to wipe Palestinians off the West Bank, or the austerity minions trying to find ways to shaft Greek citizens, do any of these things count as hate speech? The governments - thru the unaccountable EU behemoth - are trying to terrible things to a lot of people in that general part of the world and I wonder if their advocacy for their sinister ideas qualifies as hate speech. I'm assuming rich people with suits automatically will get a pass, as long as their views are close to whoever controls the European Commission.
--hongpong.com
Yes of course that is what the article SAYS. The question was, WHY DO YOU THINK that non-squetor has any relation to what is being passed or how it will be used?
Why make the propagandists job easier than it already is?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Wow. Adolph and Stalin would be smiling a big smile if they saw what is happening today. Imagine if Hitler could have silenced the hate against him as easy as this? The SS would have been half the size and the gas chambers twice as big.
This answer and any answer given can be declared as 'hate' mail and therefore silenced. Don't be afraid, do something to stop these power hungry elitist now.
Now us Windows 10 users can be considered a protected class. Down with Slashdot's hate for Windows 10.
Okay, now you have to define it.
And once defined, you have to ENFORCE it, regardless of who it is. So I expect that a large number of Islamic hate sites and commentary to be shut down.
That means if I criticize islam with facts, and then get threatened with hate speech, my comments should remain and the hate should be removed.
Ya, good luck with that. Why do I get the feeling this is just a rampant abuse of my free speech rights?
Orwell is be turning in his grave.
"Sure I believe in free speech, but you can't let that guy say those things!"
On Facebook you can say that Jews should be killed, and they will not remove it. They will remove any comments negative about BLM or Syrian immigration.
It isn't stopping hate speech. It's forcing an agenda.
Is this hate speech?
Isn't this what they are supposed to do, except they just don't enforce it because no-one complains?
The only reason copy written stuff is taken down is because of media companies complaining extremely loudly.
So a small group in France no one has ever heard of before, French Jewish youth group (UEJF), slams a lawsuit on "tech giants" and this is what they all do in unison within 24 hours?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? What a crock of bull dung. Who is funding the UEJF? Who is this UEJF? A more important question is, why is the UEJF so powerful they can corral these "tech giants" to work together for a common cause within 24 hours? Seems rather quick to join together for the common cause of CENSORSHIP and of direct defiance of The United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers"
You do realize that freedom of speech laws in Europe are not the same as the US? Hate speech has an actual definition in some States.
You know, at least Jews do not [...] mutilate their women.
Just their men, that's enough! :-D
"poor employees who will have to review awful things every day"
No need to bring their financial status into this, they already have a bad job.
This is exactly why 4chan/8chan exist. Don't get me wrong, I have a heavy dislike for them but they are at least in part a product of oppressive censorship.
Hate crime laws and censorship are not only undemocratic in that they are used to control unpopular speech, but they are also used to attack those with unpopular views. I'm gay and am *against hate crime laws and censorship of any kind*. No justification no matter how many people are molested or killed can justify such laws, but it's misleading to suggest these laws do anything positive to reduce hate or reduce violent crime anyway, and even if they did it wouldn't be justified. You don't have a free society nor a democratic one with such laws in place. You don't get to decide what someone can think or feel. If someone is murdered by someone that has racist views they should be tried for murder and not not for what they believe politically even if it seems dangerous. And such persons should not be further penalized for such political beliefs either even if there is a direct connection to the crime (ie the murdered says 'I killed that fag because all faggots should die'). Such as 'gays should be killed' or that 'there is nothing wrong with abusing children'. The opinions are not victimizing in and of themselves and people who kill or rape can be charged with crimes regardless of any unpopular political opinions held.
My Stupid-O-Meter just blew out the back of the case, achieved escape velocity, and will probably knock a chunk out of one of Saturn's rings on its way to deep space.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I can't stand all the hateful, racist, white nationalist rhetoric I hear on a daily basis in the US. Racist hate floods the TV airways, the comments on the Internet by paid trolls, textbooks, the political discussions, the policies being pushed and just about every aspect of life in the US. But, like it or not, don't believe the solution is to shut down speech. If anything all the hate does is empower us to speak up against it and helps others become more sympathetic to the issue.
http://biblehub.com/romans/12-9.htm
Pay Bill / Zuck a dick do not determine nor can they determine what is good or evil.
Dig a big big big fucking tomb.
Is speech really speech if no one hears it?
Bingo Dictionary - Pragmatist, n. A myopic idealist.
I very strongly support terrorists posting on Twitter.
A long time ago, I was a licensed private investigator[...]
Your funny story is irrelevant in a situation where the terrorists post from Syria for recruitment purposes.
If you liked East Germany or the USSR, now you get a second crack at the bat - in the name of "feelings".
Never mind that the private sector partnership is used as a shield against government accountability.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
This comment has been removed for anti-fascist hate content.
sincerely,
President Hillary Rodham Trump
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
And right on que, the Hasbara troll steps in steps in with it's lies and character assassination attempts, proudly, and in support of the Israeli terrorists.
Of course, not just one Hasbara troll just happens to appear, but two. Naturally. And probably 3 more on the sidelines watching and waiting, like school yard bullies.
The funny thing is, there is no hate speech in that comment whatsoever. The author of that comment merely states what he/she sees as being wrong in their country and why.
So why would the Hasbara trolls even bother with this? Because there is TRUTH to it. And it is the TRUTH that Israel and her agents of misery fear the most. And instead of repenting their evil deeds and righting the wrongs that they have caused the Palestinians and the rest of the world, they simply deny all charges and attack anyone who exposes their evil deeds.
It's also interesting (and hypocritical) of little INTernet_QuiRK to blatantly post a false claim of "hate speech" while at the same time calling the author a "freaking idiot".
And as predicted, Hasbara troll # 3 steps in to defend terrorist Israel and spread more lies and hatred about Muslims. Isn't that hate speech? Oh right, the "as that would be" clause "protects" little troll from being called out on his own hate crime.
... while they go about ethnic cleansing the Palesitinians, any evidence put online will be deemed hate speech and disappeared.
Yes, and Hasbara troll # 4 comes on the field and "suggests" that Muslims like to kill people in public places, take taxpayer's money and rape women (compared to the Jews who do not!).
Then this morally bankrupt loser "suggests" that Europe should have a Wall of Apartheid like Israel, but cleverly compares it to the Berlin wall (which was torn down in the name of peace and freedom) instead of Israel's famous and shameful "Wall of Apartheid".
And yet again, supposedly in support of reducing hate speech, this disgusting little hasbara troll "hopes for a terrorist attack in Germany".
No wonder nobody likes you.
that's the stupidest thing I've read for.. well, ever!
This is what happens in a place that has no (similar to) First Amendment and Second Amendment rights.
I'm not a Jew, you vile, hypocritical racist. Fuck off and die please.
"The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,"
"The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,"
"The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,"
The logic here is unbelievable
I didn't call you a Jew; I called you a troll.
But slanderous hater would have been a more accurate description.
http://time.com/4352179/facebook-twitter-google-hate-speech/
It is censorship, the type exercised by those wishing to rule. They don't care if el homeboy told
called Pat a dyke on the Internet. They care if they can stop backlash against them. They want
precedent.
There is much deserved hate for these companies. Facebook and Twitter profile who you are as much as
possible. They record who you know, where you are, where you were, who you were with, what you
think-thought-might-do.. what you own, where you got it.. etc. Accessible at a moment's notice to the
ruling conspirators.
It is subterfuge, and but a fraction of the big picture. 9/11 was the result of a plot by a man
everybody knows as George Bush Sr. He and his cronies saw evil opportunity in the gullibility of the
tax paying public. Being head of a lying spy agency (CIA) was a gateway to distribution of a collage
of lies. (eg. 1000 points of light speech).
Right now you have a built world with established geographical boundaries. Where there should be
simple neighbor principles where boundaries are defended, the CIA and it's diminishing network of
liars are hypocritically supporting mass immigration. Politicians and Jewish media hammer their
deceitful narratives into all minds young and old in every conduit they notice.
It is like this. A windows shop goes out of business if nobody has a need and none break. A
terrorism/spy business goes out of business if nobody has a need and none break. It was much more
attractive to be sneaks in the name of lies than it was to be windows installers.
The tie-in is that the US Gov spies cooperate on all levels with international spies and moles.
Having access to everybody's data may seem like "what would they possibly do with it if they have
literally everybody's, they are not God". Having access to it means they can scare you. That is what
spooks do. That is why Bill Gates has 80 Billion dollars net worth and sells the spyware OS known as
Windows. He doesn't want to die. They are fucking pussies, the whole lot.
Jesus is the Light of this world, and He is coming. It is the will of The Father. Kingdom come, Thy
Will be done.
Let's get together and create a new religion where we define Advertisements as hate speech.
Then they'll have to ban Ads.
Try it! Library of Babel