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Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com)
In partnership with ProPublica, Google News Lab is launching a new tool to track hate crimes across America. The "Documenting Hate News Index" is being powered by machine learning to track reported hate crimes across all 50 states, collecting data from February 2017 onward. TechCrunch reports: Data visualization studio Pitch Interactive helped craft the index, which collects Google News results and filters them through Google's natural language analysis to extract geographic and contextual information. Because they are not catalogued in any kind of formal national database, a fact that inspired the creation of the index to begin with, Google calls the project a "starting point" for the documentation and study of hate crimes. While the FBI is legally required to document hate crimes at the federal level, state and local authorities often fail to report their own incidents, making the data incomplete at best.
The initiative is a data-rich new arm of the Documenting Hate project which collects and verifies hate incidents reported by both individual contributors and by news organizations. The Hate News Index will keep an eye out for false positives (casual uses of the word "hate" for example), striking a responsible balance between machine learning and human curation on a very sensitive subject. Hate events will be mapped onto a calendar in the user interface, though users can also use a keyword search or browse through algorithmic suggestions. For anyone who'd like to take the data in a new direction, Google will open sourced its data set, making it available through GitHub.
The initiative is a data-rich new arm of the Documenting Hate project which collects and verifies hate incidents reported by both individual contributors and by news organizations. The Hate News Index will keep an eye out for false positives (casual uses of the word "hate" for example), striking a responsible balance between machine learning and human curation on a very sensitive subject. Hate events will be mapped onto a calendar in the user interface, though users can also use a keyword search or browse through algorithmic suggestions. For anyone who'd like to take the data in a new direction, Google will open sourced its data set, making it available through GitHub.
I'm about as left leaning as left leaning one can be, but this continous trolling by the editors really needs to stop. Please stop it now.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Wonder how they train this pseudo-AI to recognize what hate crime is. Humans can't really reliably do it, it's always a judgment call very much biased by the individual person's view, especially political views.
And when this AI then can reliably reproduce the views of the one paying for it, Google, then it's awesome to filter pretty much the whole internet the way they want.
The future is a brave new world and I'm very happy to be a part of it!
Trolling? What the hell are you talking about? I'm all for freedom of speech but as a society committed to freedom and openness we do need to keep an eye on our least desirable elements.
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I'm waiting for the listing of love crimes, as opposed to hate crimes. I mean, aren't all crimes motivated by hatred?
Or is it considered an act of love to kill someone to put him out of his misery?
How about "I loved that rich girl so much that I decided to take all her money to help her experience the joys of a simple life."
Tough love. Gotta love it!
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I hate it already.
Soon enough you will not be allowed to say anything slightly out of line without some algorithm flagging you as a "bad guy".
Luckily I'm old enough that I won't be around to see how this pans out.
Blasphemy? Cartoons and animations about faith need to be tracked too?
Ag-gag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
Governments who don't like dissidents?
Authors?
Negative movie reviews?
Books?
Statues?
History?
Tiananmen square?
Whistleblowers?
Whats next for tracking and sorting for contextual information?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
We already HAVE crime statistics reported by the police and the FBI as they document crime.
This is just a VOLUNTARY database (which I'm sure won't be abused) to build up a list of crimes, many of which aren't even legally defined as a crime and charges that were never investigated or go to trial but people's names will be tracked in the database anyway.
We've moving to the next stage of thought crimes where you will be ostracized and penalized because you said she instead of xhe (which is now a punishable crime in California) or because you state anything that's not in step with the gestapo of politically correct thought.
This is not a good thing, these are not enlightened times. We have abandoned objective truth and free speech for a political, nearly religious ideology.
Dark times for the world.
Protect me from the violence of words
Will it count Muslims killing non-Muslims as crimes of religious hate? There's been a lot of those lately. And by "lately" I mean "since Islam was a thing".
What defines a "hate crime"?
A person of ethnicity/religion/gender A robbing a person of different ethnicity/religion/gender B, do groups A and B have to be specific combinations to be considered hate or is it defined in some other way?
Just asking, because the groups talking about hate crimes tend to consider only very limited definitions that support their own preconceived notions and political agenda.
If thats not a hate crime, nothing is...
Come on, it's a joke, Right?
hate against hate is not hate, is it ?
Of course they won't. As won't any extreme-en BLM activists chanting racist mantras and calling out for crime against white people.
This is a dangerous idea. Some group, not answerable to anyone, gets to put people into a database of "wrongthink". TFS and TFA talk about "hate crimes" - one would like that to imply that they would only collect law enforcement data, ideally restricted to actual convictions. That might be ok, but that's not what they're doing.
In fact, the "hate crime" collection apparently involves becoming a central repository for any sort of article, blog post, or whatever that talks about supposed incidents of "hate". That would be bad enough, since the criteria are entirely subjective.
But it's worse than that. If you go to the actual project page, they want to document hate crimes and "bias incidents". For the latter, they are happy to accept individual stories. Who gets to define what constitutes a "bias" incident?
At best, this is just another SJW right-think project, giving the long list of corporate sponsors a wonderful opportunity to virtue signal. At worst, if individual people are named in the individual stories they intend to collect, it will become a form of arbitrary, non-judicial punishment with no recourse to the people named.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
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Conveniently using their new (and old) Android releases to use the microphone/camera to listen for hateful sounds and record the video. It's all part of your user agreement. Apple doesn't need the functions added since they've been baked in since the beginning. You will align your thoughts to your corporate masters, and when they say Upgrade! you will pay.
All idiots that believe in small government, big rights.
What kind of asinine kool-aid thinking are you going along with?
Hate against hate is STILL HATE.
Hating people who hate means you hate YOURSELF.
Curious: are you pro-death penalty, or is murdering murderers still murder?
Hate crimes and bias incidents are a national problem, but there’s no reliable data on the nature or prevalence of the violence. We’re collecting and verifying reports to create a national database for use by journalists, researchers and civil-rights organizations.
The 2016 election left many in America afraid – of intolerance and the violence it can inspire. The need for trustworthy facts on the details and frequency of hate crimes and other incidents born of prejudice has never been more urgent.
At this point, there is simply no reliable national data on hate crimes. And no government agency documents lower-level incidents of harassment and intimidation, such as online or real-life bullying. Documenting and understanding all of these incidents – from hate-inspired murders to anti-Semitic graffiti to racist online trolling – requires new, more creative approaches.
Just kidding. We all know at least 25% will be the fake hate crimes millenials love to fabricate.
"He ripped off my hijab and screamed 'Trump won Muslim whore!!'"
LOVE our new overlords!
They appear to be self appointed arbiters of freedom of speech. This is what happened early on during the Wiemar Republic as Hitler's Brown Shirts stated govern the public discourse with violence and coercion.
More recently in the US I remember the censorship of pornography. The standard was, "I'll recognize it when I see it." It took us a long time to get rid of that censorship. And now we have Google and Pro Publica starting to do the same thing themselves in the name of hate speech, which they refuse to define. "I'll recognize it when I see it." The basic problem is the designated hate speech can be and often is carefully documented taken from primary sources available to everybody. We have somebody going around collecting information, documenting it, and presenting it accurately being censored because the resulting document somehow is this undefined thing called "hate speech."
This action of censorship is purely a symptom of their participating in what they claim they are trying to stop, Fascism in all its odious putrid excrescence.. You can see this if you read William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." This is a heavy read. It is a scary read. It reveals how "movements" such as Antifa are doing exactly what the Germans did leading up to the collapse of the Wiemar Republic and WW-II.
Please, Google, go back to your roots, "Do no wrong."
{^_^}
We now have hate news, hate events, hate dresses, hate face masks, hate flags and hate symbols. The rapture comes when the first hate cake emerges from the oven. Because, everybody loves cake.
... just gather all young straight white males into some kind of concentration camp and just gas the bastards?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
I wonder if former Google engineers will be first to make the list. Perhaps they actually thought that conservatives have a place in the modern world.
Wouldn't the police have it already? (Are the mega corps turning the world fascist?)
I seem to remember other political parties that had a list of people... they were not very nice
A long time ago governments (of all varieties) would keep huge amounts of paper records on anyone or anything they thought was suspicious.
And they could afford to pay people to generate LOTS of records, so there ended up being so many records on paper that they became difficult to use.
Much of the information retained turned out to be ultimately worthless. And of what little of it would have been valuable, there was no way to search or access it efficiently, so it often turned out to be worthless as well.
When computers came along, it was said that they would fix that problem...... And for a while the computers did... But maybe even that tide is now turning?
What this basically amounts to is a special project to discover and sub-index results that are already in Google's database system, but that cannot be searched or accessed conveniently by the normal means.
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So what is the next stage in search engine design?
Is it to selectively forget results that people click on the least? (not just push them down in the results, but remove them entirely?)
Do a search engine's indexes regularly need to be pruned to improve results?
Caitlyn Jenner commits a hat crime, but of course another sad reality is the lib view now is that by wearing a MAGA hat means by default you have committed hate crime so now Caitlyn is associated with hate. How many others will be wrongly accused.
Linked on this propublia site.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
No person or corporation can unilaterally decide who is committing a crime and punish the corresponding authors (being in such a database might become an important punishment). In any civilised society, the process should consist in: reasonable evidence of a behaviour against the (ideally fair) law; (ideally fair) trial; and condemn also stating the level of publicity of the corresponding crime/punishment. Not even government-related bodies (e.g., police or public organisations) can avoid that proceeding without facing consequences. Just the fact of even considering the option of allowing private, egoist/pro-profit interests to be in such a judge-jury-executioner position is completely unacceptable. They shouldn't even have proposed such a thing and the corresponding legal bodies shouldn't allow ideas on these lines to ever become a reality.
Clarification for anyone interested: I don't consider myself a potential victim of this kind of things. I am a hate-free person with virtually no prejudices of any kind. Sometimes, I can have a quite aggressive attitude, but always as a reaction to a previous attack and by focusing on the given personality (e.g., "you are an idiot") rather than on generic features like ethnicity, gender, religion, etc. In summary, this post isn't precisely meant to protect myself, but to contribute towards avoiding the ridiculous nonsense of granting more unfair power to doing-everything-for-their-own-growth corporations.
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Or will the only hate crimes be the ones that white patriarchal society decides that matter?
If you saw the video of the "protesters" who toppled the statue in Durham, then kicked its face and danced on it, it was pretty clear that it was motivated by hate.
Let's see if it makes the Google/ProPublica list of hate crimes....
All the songs tgat say kill whitey
Are they going to block or ban those
If they actually log real hate crimes and eliminate the hoaxes with machine learning then maybe we will see some good.
I wonder if deplatforming counts as a hate crime to google.
I wonder if they count firing their own staff for writing the truth will be a hate crime?
It's not self defence unless you are in immediate physical threat.
'Preemptive self defence' is just assault with a wafer thin excuse for being being a hypocritical, violent wanker.
Defence... Another Brit Twit putting their two Pence in. We get it. You don't like free speech. That's why we parted ways 200+ years ago. Now go back to monitoring your cameras.
I have a nail polish database. Does anybody care?
The real hoax is this truthiness people keep claiming ownership over. Truth is mine: mine alone. I manifest, without regard for how minimally you're willing to think about me. And whether you're right or wrong, I don't need your hand, as I am quite capable of defending myself.
They are absorbing how to censor and vilify people nicely just like they do in Communist China.
Also notice that Apple is doing this over there too - won't be long before your iOS or Android headset censors what you see and do, and reports right back to their database if you try to get around it.
Expect a visit from the Goolag police in your future.
Once klanish sheeny sporting a long and snifting nose. Wait 100 years .... still hustling the inner-tube while nose gets longer. All social memes & cliches drop ... into ... place ... making the observer doubt cultural evolution.
Do you know it when you hear, read it...say it? I'm willing to bet one person's opinion is another person's hate speech. It's sad to see that we don't tolerate free speech anymore...what happens when people feel their speech is being restricted? They start to go beyond speech...and into action. The way to keep civility is by allowing free speech, not by limiting it, this is what the founding fathers knew.
Unless this records and reports incidents of violence incurred by Antifa / Black Lives Matter / Social Justice Warriors, it is worse than useless: it is yet more alt-left propaganda perpetuated by Google and its far-left cohorts.
Seriously. The far right are not the only ones (nor even the majority) committing hate crimes these days. Violent radical anarchists are the principle offenders in present-day North America.
Very dangerous waters.
This is just an extension of not hiring people that post dumb things on Facebook - except it attacks freedom of speech and assembly and questioning authority - now corporate authority or the authority of another group or country.
Who is to say that just visiting a website where "bias" is discussion does not put you on "a List."
Talk to people from Mao's Cultural Revolution and STASI East Germany.
They will tell you first hand this will all end in tears.
The problem I have with the data sources that may then be used by organizations like Google is that they inherently become subjective as all hell.
For example, if we were to use the definition of a "hate crime" as one where a group or organization engages in violent actions in order to create social change, you not only scoop up White Separatists, but you also scoop up many in the Civil Rights movement, who used violence to get change. You also scoop up the labor rights activists of the early 1900's who engaged in violence in order to promote social change.
So inherently the definition of a "hate crime" becomes inherently tied up in who is doing the hating and what is being hated.
A Westboro Church member punches a homosexual because of who he is, and of course it's a "hate crime." But a homosexual punches a Westboro Church member because of who he is--well, the fact pattern is exactly the same: A punches B because of who B is. But should that be classified as a hate crime?
It's why I'd like to see us do away with the whole concept of "hate crimes" and prosecute the underlying crime instead. And if you want social change badly enough you are willing to sacrifice your life (and become a prisoner for your actions) then so be it. The public can then judge if you're a martyr or a murderer based on the social currents rather than by overt definition.
It was hate driven, right. Is hatred of whites still hate or is it different?
Or Twitter? After all, they aid and abet this shit in the first place, and their behavior shows it. Aiding and abetting a hate crime is part of hate crimes, IIRC.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
if(victim == white && victim == male) hatecrime = false;
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Did they include the Facebook Live Torture case as a hate crime?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/...
Black on white crime is hateful too.
Google is going full retard...
Whoops, am I on the hate list now for saying "retard?"
THIS SHIT.
I speculate that the rise in violence from the anti-alt-right groups is actually causing the unintended opposite effect, and in fact gives the alt-right more support they would otherwise not have.
The moderates who would have been on their (anti-alt-right) side will no longer wish to associate with them due to the violence.
The moderates who would lean right will react to the attacks by increasing their support and possibly moving further right.
But what do you expect, when the righteous on either side believe that violence is the way to shut the other side down. The alt-left/antifa and alt-right are a lot closer to each other, as they are both leaning towards imposing their view and quashing dissent with violence.
surely, "hate news database" is much less menacing and Orwellian than "hate crime database"
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
I hate everybody. Equally. If everyone knows I'm a hater, maybe they'll stay away.
it will be a hate crime not to use google
This isn't government. You tech assholes are just shit at life.
Watch what happens to Jean Valjean to see where that sort of thinking gets us.
ProPublica is not "Journalism in the Public Interest." It is a leftist propaganda outlet funded by the Sandlers who became wealthy from their subprime mortgage scam. You can see them portrayed by SNL in this video. https://archive.org/details/Pu... That Google should be involved with them means I will be using a different search engine.
Your post just made the list!
You will be hearing from Us.
I can't wait until I'm walking home by a protest I didn't know was happening. Some snowflake takes a picture of me and posts it online with the rest of the "white nationalists" for the crime of being white. Then my name is entered into a publicly searchable database forever despite never having committed a crime. Then I can expect violent "retribution" for said crime against me and my family. Then I will not be able to rent property, get a decent job or I'm betting in the near future even get a passport. I certainly won't be able to run for any public office or teach at public schools.
"Don't be evil" indeed. This is NOT a slippery slope, this is obvious what is going on. Fuck you Google.
Don't you think that the concept of "thought crime" is already bad enough?
Ben Shapiro got physically assaulted and menaced of being beaten up by a transgender on TV and got away with it because as a trans the guy was a protected minority. Look it up if you don't believe me.
As in, bloody obvious that it would be.
Hate Crime.
In GOD we trust, all others we monitor.
Is the database going to contain the ~37000 black on white rapes every year? The rest of the black on white violence?
Are they going to include an entry for themselves for hating haters? Lol
Whenever collecting data and visualizing it in various reports, there usually is an intended purpose, i.e. who's going to be looking at the reports and what actions and/or decisions will be made based on those reports. Those actions/decisions should in turn change the next iteration of the report, closing the control loop.
Can I someone enlighten me what exactly is this hate reporting expected to accomplish? Who is the intended audience and what decisions are they expected to make based on this report?
As long as -all- hate crimes are put up, with none being dis-included because some believe it's impossible to commit a hate crime against them, then I'm for this.
Frankly, I'd prefer they create a database of crimes by cops.
Or rather -- since cops rarely get prosecuted, much less convicted, for actions that would be considered crimes if committed by non-"heroes" -- a database of, um, dubious actions by cops. Killing pet dogs for no apparently reason. Forcibly exploring bodily orifices under questionable circumstances. Busting into homes without warrants -- for that address. That sort of thing.
Not going to hold my breath, waiting on that one.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
So put me on the list.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Feels like 1940 except back then it was IBM- next will be resettlement for those who supposedly have a monopoly on hate...
So we have a couple of NGOs teamed up to define what a crime is without the benefit of a judge or jury, and no doubt make this list available to anyone...
THAT sounds like a hate crime to me.
The Democratic party. What other group has attracted hate groups of all kinds like they have? Gays that hate non gays, blacks that hate whites, illegals that hate law abiding citizens, and so on and so forth. Overall, they hate America and they'll tell you that. Often openly.
Don't like someone? Report them has hate crime enthusiasts. Plant evidence if you feel like it. Just the accusation and "guilty until proven innocent" process automation will do.