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Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com)

Posted by msmash on from the fixing-things dept.

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.

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  1. Dun dun dun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Dun dun dun by penandpaper · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Does that mean a baker should not forced to bake a cake for a gay couple? I am confused, both are private services offered yet one cannot decide on their policy for the use of their service.

  2. The new era of censorship by sinij · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Doubling down by s.petry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.

  4. Cool! by MikeRT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

  5. Re:I am not ashamed of being white. by sinij · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. Good by DogDude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    I don't respond to AC's.