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Social Media Giants Step Up Joint Fight Against Extremist Content (reuters.com)
Social media giants Facebook, Google's YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft said on Monday they were forming a global working group to combine their efforts to remove terrorist content from their platforms. From a report: Responding to pressure from governments in Europe and the United States after a spate of militant attacks, the companies said they would share technical solutions for removing terrorist content, commission research to inform their counter-speech efforts and work more with counter-terrorism experts. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism "will formalize and structure existing and future areas of collaboration between our companies and foster cooperation with smaller tech companies, civil society groups and academics, governments and supra-national bodies such as the EU and the UN," the companies said in a statement.
So what is a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment using unlawful threats or violence against the state or the public ?
That's what is missing here. Software that uploads your video simultaneously to all video platforms. If people have to do it manually, they will shy away from the trouble of getting it out onto all of them, but provide a service that allows them to push their videos to all the video content hosters at the same time and people will do it.
Pipe it through your own server to save them bandwidth and people will flock to that service immediately.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Instead of trying to label people or content, why not look at the actually, er, content of the posts? So instead of saying "this was posted by X, therefore is not allowed", have a rule that says "no beheading, no inciting violence, no harassing people".
That's generally what these companies do, and I don't see any evidence of systemic oppression of political ideas or groups, only a few mistakes here and there which affect all sides.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Re did I miss something?
"Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media" (June 25, 2017)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
China law would outlaw insults to Communist heroes, martyrs (March 13, 2017)
http://www.seattletimes.com/na...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"