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Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com)
With public backlash growing, Twitter says it's taking steps to crack down on hate speech, from making it easier to report alleged incidents on the social media service to educating moderators on what kind of conduct violates the rules. From a report on USA Today: Twitter users will also gain more control over their experience on Twitter with the ability to mute words and phrases, even entire conversations, if they don't want to receive notifications about them, said Del Harvey, Twitter's head of safety. The effort comes as an uptick in biased graffiti, assaults and other incidents have been reported in the news and on social media since Election Day, prompting president-elect Donald Trump to call for people to "stop it" during a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night. The FBI reports that hate crimes rose 7% in 2015, led by attacks on Muslim Americans.
Now that Trump has been elected, we enter a new era where white men now have license to say whatever insulting, sexist, and racist things they want. In other words, hate speech is encoraged. Therefore filtering out hate speech would be unnecessary and heavily discouraged.
On a more serious note, filtering out “hate speech” must be considered carefully. In the 60’s, you could shut anyone up just by labeling them a commie. Today, you can squelch any dissenting opinion you want by labeling it hate speech. I’m believe in being nice and tactful, but we need to protect our constitutional right to free expression. It is not illegal to be an asshole.
To the British, the American colonists who wanted indepedence were “assholes” who didn’t know their place under the monarchy, regardless of their lack of representation in the government. To white racists, people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were assholes for standing up for the civil rights of black people. Today, anyone who stands up for gay marriage is an asshole to many conservatives. It’s actually important that people be “assholes."
Actually, they've both asked people to make the transition as peaceful as possible and told the public to accept the results of the election.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
What the hell is it with Trump supporters and this persecution/plot mentality.
Oh right fascism, #7 on the list if you're interested.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Let me ask you. Who is a greater threat? A mob of spoiled brat, dragging people out of cars, ganging up on little girls, bashing pregnant women's car windows in ....
Or a someone chanting "Build a wall" ?
This is what is known as the False Dilemma.
I am not denying there are people that "hate" out there, and bigots and such, but they are pretty much feckless cowards mostly hiding behind anonymity.
Except there you are denying them. Ok, ok, I'll qualify it, you're downplaying them. Here.
Elsewhere, you made a denial about the 1950s.
On the other hand, there seems to be hundreds of thousands of people willing to cause mayhem protesting our democratic republic after an election, where people actually get to register their voice, and what is supposed to be a "peaceful" transition of power.
And here was have Exaggeration.
Or that is what Hillary and the Left were claiming just 4 months ago.
Sorry, the REAL danger are the precious snowflakes throwing temper tantrums like spoiled three year olds who don't get the toy they wanted, who are literally kicking and screaming because someone (over half of Americans who voted) said "no".
Yes, this is belittlement, and discrediting. After all, if you can portray them as unworthy, you can dismiss them. And hey, remember all the complaints about Agent provocateurs?
Bet you can't acknowledge that instigators may be operating under a False Flag.
Just like you couldn't enforce "Democrats only" washroom in your private restaurant
If someone in the restaurant starts yelling out about how you should kill all the Jews, you can absolutely kick them out.
It shouldn't be legal to censor on social media based on political views.
To some people, mass murder is a political view.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Bull. shit. Stop trying to drag the rest of us down into the gutter with the filth that has been RIOTING because they won't accept the election results, right after they did the shame-shame thing on Trump. The "tolerant, peace-loving" democrats who scream obscenities and label as racist anyone who disagrees with them, who calls for the assassination of the person the majority of the country elected for president.
I've never seen a worse case of rot within the citizenry of America. It's systemic and infiltrated the youth, corrupting them very likely beyond hope. Entire swaths of the populace are effectively write-offs as far as understanding American values and what built America into the super-power and beacon of freedom that everyone looked up to. Their indoctrination with anti-American hatred is nearly impossible to undo at this point. The education system, media, and hollywood need a good, strong enema to prevent the poisoning of future generations.