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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.
And the wonder why people that might consider using them go elsewhere.
"Shame about that speech you have over there, shame if anyone called it hate speech."
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.
The problem with this is that it will be up to Twitter to define "hate speech". Is it saying hateful things to someone? Is it threatening someone? Is it saying things they disagree with?
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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?
"the ability to mute words and phrases"
I've been hoping for this for a long time. I'll start by filtering out "Liberal" and "Conservative" and go from there.
"Twitter Says it's Cracking Down on Free Speech"
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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."
She has to go back.
If people have to start going back to their home countries, they're going to have to vivisect the average American and mail off about a dozen parcels. Most of us are so mixed up we have no idea where our ancestry comes from, and even those who think they do are frequently wrong.
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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.
Twitter itself is a huge part of the problem in the coarsening of political debate. The emphasis on short, snappy "soundbite" statements and the e-peen benefits of being retweeted serve as powerful incentives for people to forgo civility and mean that the most extreme voices, whatever their persuasion, get the most prominence.
When you are trying to fit your thoughts into a character limit, what kind of clauses are you going to cut? How about:
"I see your point, but have you considered..."
"I understand why some people are attracted to that argument, but..."
"I know there are exceptions to this rule..."
"I might be oversimplifying here..."
"This is purely anecdotal, but..."
Twitter is a remarkably effective tool for stripping conversations of all of the little niceties, qualifications and acknowledgements that keep things civil. It's a platform for thumping certainties, hysterical over-reactions and wanton attention-seeking. I've known rational, well-spoken people, often well-regarded in their professional fields, who turn into flaming morons on Twitter.
It's not a problem of Twitter's moderation policies or editorial stances, but rather a fundamental problem with the medium. Being mischievous, maybe 140 characters should be the minimum rather than the limit.
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.
I thought that they would also mention the many death threats Trump has received. As much as I dislike Trump, he was also a victim of threats on Twitter, but that is nowhere mentioned in the article.
Calling Mexicans rapists is the textbook definition of hate speech.
I'm actually interested in where he said this. Do you mind linking the actual quote? Let me also add this: you said that he "called mexicans rapists". Are you asserting that he implied that all mexicans were rapists, or that the entire population of Mexicans contains people who are rapists, but not necessarily all of them?
So, not all Mexicans, then? Just some of the illegal Mexicans crossing the border? Which makes sense because 80% of central American women and girls are raped during their illegal border crossing. So, somebody's doing the raping. I'm so glad we elected Trump! Once he builds that border wall and we cut down on people crossing illegally, so many women and girls won't be raped! It's wonderful! Can you believe those despicable, evil people who voted for Hillary, the pro-rape candidate? Why do they love rape so much? Clearly that's the only reason they voted for her: to keep rape alive.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
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.
This AC's angry hyperbolic reply misses the point completely. When a company thinks their product or brand is being damaged they can act to protect it. Individual right to free speech is secondary. If individuals think the company overreacted, it's a free market and they are free to take their activities elsewhere to avoid that product/service. It's a two-way street.
The government has an interest in how, in general, business is conducted. You have no duty to bake a cake for a party following a same-sex wedding. If you are in the business of baking wedding cakes, however, you are subject to rules on how to run a business, and that includes not discriminating against same-sex weddings (at least in some states).
The compelling state interest is that people should be able to do business as long as they behave.
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