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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.
This is a slippery slope.
You don't have the right to not be offended.
The echo chamber is the reason Trump got elected. It made the American left complacent.
Considering that those on the left consider support Trump to be "hate speech" I assume what this really means is cracking down on the freedom of speech.
People have been investigating those so called "Trump-caused hate incidents" and a lot of them turn out to be faked. There is no "hate backlash" brought on by Trump. What you're seeing are the people who lost the election trying to smear the winner to take away from the fact that THEY LOST and that America does not want to go down the path they've been pushing.
So the technocrats didn't like the outcome of the past election and are now determined to ensure it won't happen again. Lets not pretend this has anything to do with hate speech.
The only thing that would push me to vote for a despicable candidate like Trump if the other side is attempting censorship.
Obviously certain tech companies hate that their censorship and propaganda failed, so they are doubling down. Time for competing products to rise up, assuming you don't get sued out of business for the next couple months at any rate.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
So when BLM activists agitate for felonies to be committed against teenage girls that disagree with them, Twitter will finally block their accounts, right?
Right?
I am.
Feel-free to hate yourself, but at least do it for the right reasons - because you are an idiot. You have no control over your race, and your race on the whole, despite what SJWs will get you to believe, isn't any more racists than Hispanic, Asian, Black, or Arab.
I'm glad. I'm tired of the trolls and racists and assholes trying to ruin every single Internet discussion. Fuck them. Not that Twitter is a good place for a discussion, but the assholes have run rampant in every place on the Internet where people (try to) communicate. I would never spend time in a real life place that had these same idiots saying these same kind of things, and I don't online, either. I'm sick of it. I don't need it.
I don't respond to AC's.
While the 140 character limit certainly does hinder nuance and full expression, the coarsening of civil discourse in open space is much more far reaching than that. Look at just about any unmoderated comments section on the web for a prime example. I'd bring up Penny Arcade's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, but anonymity seems to be only part of the equation. I would argue rather that it is the increased degree of removal from immediate social consequence that enables and encourages people to be flaming shitbags to each other on the internet.
We have certain expectations of polite behavior in person, and someone who violates those norms gets punished by the way everyone around reacts to them. This doesn't carry over to the internet though - worse, you can probably find people who will support you in your asshole-ish behavior.
As usual, reading comprehension is entirely abandoned in favor of partisan hackery. Twitter was caught red-handed applying filters to people they ideologically disagree with while leaving blatant abuse from ideologically like-minded individuals unaddressed. This isn't about individuals deciding they want to create filters that apply to their own feed, it is about Twitter deciding to apply filters to specific individuals and forcing this filter on everyone else.
You mean like refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, because you find homosexuality morally abhorrent?
The problem is that one half of our cultural/political spectrum has taken it upon themselves to redefine terms to suit their liking.
So the word "Hate Speech" only means "Disagrees with me"
"Phobia" has gone from "irrational fear" to "Doesn't completely and unconditionally support and embrace"
"Girl" now means "Man with a dress on"
"White Supremacist" now means "White male with traditional values"
"Sexism" and "Racism" now have nothing to do with sex or race.
When one of these hypocrites takes it upon themselves to absolve the world of what THEY consider "hate speech", everyone that hasn't drunken the Kool-Aid knows exactly what that really means. It means anything outside the lines of the liberal brainwashing machine.
There are tons of people sreaming about that on twitter who have not been banned.
Have any been banned for insulting white people? There's tons of celebrities shitting all over white people on twitter right now. Think any of them will get banned? Doubt it.
Just face facts. You're a biased fuckwit who unironically thinks reality has a liberal bias.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.