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YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the two-is-better-than-one dept.

bongey writes: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft are teaming up to create a common database to flag extremist videos and pictures. The database is set to go live in 2017. The system will not automatically remove content. Reuters reports: "The companies will share 'hashes' -- unique digital fingerprints they automatically assign to videos or photos -- of extremist content they have removed from their websites to enable their peers to identify the same content on their platforms. 'We hope this collaboration will lead to greater efficiency as we continue to enforce our policies to help curb the pressing global issue of terrorist content online,' the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. Each company will decide what image and video hashes to add to the database and matching content will not be automatically removed, they said. The database will be up and running in early 2017 and more companies could be brought into the partnership."

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  1. Re:and tomorrow by Zandamesh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This slope is so slippery that there is no possible way to move any direction but down.

    The problem with this reasoning is that it avoids engaging with the issue at hand, and instead shifts attention to extreme hypotheticals. Because no proof is presented to show that such extreme hypotheticals will in fact occur, this fallacy has the form of an appeal to emotion fallacy by leveraging fear. In effect the argument at hand is unfairly tainted by unsubstantiated conjecture.
    source: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...

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  2. This is so profoundly dangerous! by phamNewan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My guess is that pretty soon they will create a Social Credit Score like China is putting in place. Then anyone who disagrees can instantly be silenced online. http://www.wsj.com/articles/ch...

  3. Re:and tomorrow by Bite+The+Pillow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So we are back to personal responsibility and vigilance, instead of trusting a free content host not to enforce its terms of service?

    Yawn. It's not censorship, you're playing in their yard, and you are free to start a competitor if it seems like they overstep.

    I'm okay with this until tales of abuses show up, and then I'm judging each side accordingly. Until then, there's nothing to do but spread the information.

    And the first loon to cry censorship is an ignorant ass, not the first of your slippery slope.