EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo: On Sunday, the European Commission warned Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube and Microsoft that if the companies do not address their hate speech problems, the EU will enact legislation that will force them to do so. In May, those five companies voluntarily signed a code of conduct to fight illegal hate speech on their platforms within 24 hours... But on Sunday, the European Commission revealed that the companies were not complying with this code in a satisfactory manner.

"In practice the companies take longer and do not yet achieve this goal. They only reviewed 40 percent of the recorded cases in less than 24 hours," a Commission official told Reuters. The Commission's report found that YouTube responded to reports of harassment the fastest, and unsurprisingly, Twitter found itself in last place. "If Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft want to convince me and the ministers that the non-legislative approach can work, they will have to act quickly and make a strong effort in the coming months," Jourova told the Financial Times on Sunday.

Comments

Will this apply to slashdot as well?

[ls671]

Will this apply to slashdot as well?

Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about you shutting your retarded American mouth until you actually have a grasp of what's going on?

"True conservative backlash" LMFAO. It's the usual, scared, angry people who have been losing out in where the society has been going the last 30 years, because of our politicians stopped caring about the ordinary man and deliberately started to create policies which widened the income gaps, and generally favoured the 1%-ers, who are looking for someone to save them. And of course, as many people tend to do, they look for someone who can tell them who's fault it is that they are getting worse and worse off (It's the Jews! It's the Mexicans!), and promise to fix all their problems - a classic "strong man".

TL;DR, it has not a single fucking thing to do with "true conservatism", but rather a lot to do with opportunistic psychopaths using the despair of people in trouble to get themselves into power by telling them what they want to hear. And people are retarded to not realize what it's all about, it's not like we haven't been here before.

Re:good

[johanw]

Good, good. Let the hate flow through you. Strike those companies down and complete your journey to the dark side.

Re:good

[spamking]

Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and take Zuckerburg's place at my side!