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Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com)
Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai has interviewed Emily Crose, a former NSA hacker, who has built NEMESIS, an AI-powered program that can help spot symbols that have been co-opted by hate groups to signal to each other in plain sight. Crose, who has also moderated Reddit in the past, thought of building NEMESIS after the Charlottesville, Virginia incident last year. From the report: Crose's motivation is to expose white nationalists who use more or less obscure, mundane, or abstract symbols -- or so-called dog whistles -- in their posts, such as the Black Sun and certain Pepe the frog memes. Crose's goal is not only to expose people who use these symbols online but hopefully also push the social media companies to clamp down on hateful rhetoric online. "The real goal is to educate people," Crose told me in a phone call. "And a secondary goal: I'd really like to get the social media platforms to start thinking how they can enforce some decency on their own platforms, a certain level of decorum." [...]
At a glance, the way NEMESIS works is relatively simple. There's an "inference graph," which is a mathematical representation of trained images, classified as Nazi or white supremacist symbols. This inference graph trains the system with machine learning to identify the symbols in the wild, whether they are in pictures or videos. In a way, NEMESIS is dumb, according to Crose, because there are still humans involved, at least at the beginning. NEMESIS needs a human to curate the pictures of the symbols in the inference graph and make sure they are being used in a white supremacist context. For Crose, that's the key to the whole project -- she absolutely does not want NEMESIS to flag users who post Hindu swastikas, for example -- so NEMESIS needs to understand the context. "It takes thousands and thousands of images to get it to work just right," she said.
At a glance, the way NEMESIS works is relatively simple. There's an "inference graph," which is a mathematical representation of trained images, classified as Nazi or white supremacist symbols. This inference graph trains the system with machine learning to identify the symbols in the wild, whether they are in pictures or videos. In a way, NEMESIS is dumb, according to Crose, because there are still humans involved, at least at the beginning. NEMESIS needs a human to curate the pictures of the symbols in the inference graph and make sure they are being used in a white supremacist context. For Crose, that's the key to the whole project -- she absolutely does not want NEMESIS to flag users who post Hindu swastikas, for example -- so NEMESIS needs to understand the context. "It takes thousands and thousands of images to get it to work just right," she said.
Nothing can possibly go wrong with this. It has everything: NSA, hacking, white supremacists, reddit, AI. Definitely worth funding.
I feel safer already
Dude, there isn't some sort of secret hate group code. Everyone knows those douches when they talk about "dem liberuls" or "dose imagrunts". They are not even trying to hide, they wear their status proudly.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
And you are done!
Seems like a good way to fight racism.
You mean Samaritian, right...?
Proof that the deep state is anti-conservative and trying to take down our duly elected government.
Seems fair
Why not all extremist content? What's purpose of focusing only on the far-right? I suspect he or Facebook and Twitter aren't interested in any kind of bot that identifies far-left content. Is this the beginnings of an AI war?
I give it a day before someone convinces the rainbow flag has been co-opted and is now a symbol of hate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I am a proud citizen of the fruitful and glorious kingdom of the Netherlands; soon to be holders and protectors of a global hegemony the likes never seen before. Our mighty ships, our mighty crews, they will set fire to the lands beyond. A fire no mortal can put out. Such is the power of the powerful nationstate "Holland": Saviours of the Just, protectors of the Golden Child.
And the far left gets a pass!
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
What about far-left wing symbols of hate, violence, and oppression?
Antifa flags, socialist fist, hammer & sickle
After all, the Communists have killed far more innocents than the Nazis did.
It definitely needs to find a way to filter out ANYTHING that might be Xenophobic because that's always racist.
Unless it's about Russia.
Or unless it's about Boycott, Divest & Sanction which is the politically correct way to literally act like 1933-era Hitler but OK on the UC Berkeley campus so not a hate group.
Or unless it's misgynistic AND xenophobic remarks about Melania Trump because reasons.
Or unless it's antisemitism directed at Ivanka Trump because similar reasons.
That's sounds fine.
The problem is when the definition of "hate" keeps expanding to encompass anything a particular group does not agree with, which seems to be a trend now a days. Twitter has become the on-line equivalent of the American university safe-space where nobody has the right to be offended by anything at all whatsoever.
though most of them are too dumb to feel shame. Shame requires cerebral processing, not cro-magnon man brainstem functions. They voted for a lifelong conman, after all.
Nonetheless, if they post publicly, they deserve the public spotlight to be on them. There is no expectation of privacy in this context.
The program is totally not politically motivated.
So I'm for it.
https://www.self.com/story/tra...
Can't find anything claiming he worked for the NSA, simply Army intelligence (which is anything but intelligent).
Communism is both much deadlier and more socially-accepted than any other kind of hateful school of thought today.
Anything "fighting evil" that ignores images of Che Guevara and like symbols is simply partisan b.s.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Just see who Tay follows on Twitter.
The cataloging and inventory of undesirables used to be their job, I know even the Germans were amazed by their efficiency, now some startup wants to run them out of business.
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Symbols like #kkk, #neonazi, #blacklivesmatter, #antifa, ..
Obviously, given the funding sources for these extremist groups, you could also identify them thru people who, for personal gain, are against legalized MJ, and then correlate that with Blockchain ads. I find a lot of the fake FB and Twitter bots in those groups.
Bitcoin and tulips both look pretty, and have about as much use.
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After you've found the people you want, you round them up. Inconspicuously at first - call them terrorists, or nazis, or commies, or whatever. They are undesirables right? Make sure they have criminal records. Later, when the population has accepted mass incarceration, you can more easily eliminate them.
Yep we are nearly there aren't we. Only this time with AI to help us automate the process even more.
Reminds me of a friend who sees Illuminati symbols in every triangle or one-eyed photo.
This business of blaming one side of politics for all "hate" is nonsense. Someone also needs to read up on the 1st amendment which doesn't only protect politically correct speech. That kind of speech doesn't need protecting. It's speech you disagree with that needs to be protected the most.
Where do I sign up for my US gubment job?
A better neural net, faster, lighter, and more trainable was written back in 2007. It's called "crm114", adter the infamous piece of signal validation equipment broken in the plane dropping a hydrogen bomb in "Dr. Strangelove". It's in pure C, it's trainable on any axis or now multiple axes you want to use, and it's also the most effective spam filter in the world, and it's GPL software available at http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ .
So why are these fools re-inventing the wheel? Oh, wait!!! They might have to publish their modifications to their clients, so they re-invent, and re-invent, and re-invent the wheel, and they make it bulkier and in Java and Rust an dPerl and Ruby and *ignore the algorithms and training*, which are the crux of any recognition system. And is crm114 progressing much? No, because it doesn't *need* to. It's already in use commercially in places you would not *believe*. Ask the author, Bill "Crash" Yerazunis, former American team lead on the American version of "JunkYard Wars", and holder of over 50 patents. The man is scary.
Maybe everyone is shit. Have you considered that?
Indeed. As it happens, I believe that (at least in America) the far right is much, much, much more dangerous than the far left, but that doesn't mean these pathetic hypocritical leftist witch hunts put a smile on my face. I mean, this is so stupid. We KNOW that the American leftists are not sufficiency energized by this tactic, hence why there was dip in the turnout of Ds last year, leading to Hillary's loss. Over a year later, and it's nothing but more self-sabotage, more of the War on Humor, etc.
And yeah, the hypocrisy does really hurt. It bolsters the right wing media and disillusions the pro-rational, pro-truth left. (That's not even the same as "moderate". I don't believe in moderation for moderation's sake, just sanity for sanity's sake and truth for truth's sake.)
Show of hands: are there any leftists in the audience who don't know, or still refuse to admit, that Black Lives Matter was/is a centrally planned movement run by a organization that openly quotes and openly idolizes the fugitive "domestic terrorist" and cop killer, Assata Shakur? Because it was, and they do. For a very long time, they had an attributed quote from her at the top of their website and you could find dozens of videos of BLM protesters chanting that same quote in unison at their rallies and protests. And the other major populist leftist movement of the past few years, that Women's March thing? Also centrally organized, and they openly celebrated Assata Shakur's birthday.
The people on the left don't know this or want to hear any of this; they don't want think about it. But guess what? The right wing knows about it and they are using it (plus the War on Humor, plus a few of the actual lies printed by the "MSM", plus a thousand other groanworthy missteps by leftists who foolishly think they can beat the far right at its own game) to win over the hearts and minds of a new generation.
I have zero fear of the "far left" directly doing massive damage to America; our left-wing politicians are way too moderate-ized (and also too unpopular) for that to ever happen. But these jokers are ruining it for everyone else, all the millions of us who despite what the Republicans stand for right now. They're ruining it for everyone, because they actually think that they can out-stupid and out-demagogue the right wing in America. And you can't; you just CAN'T god damn it.
A left wing pro-PC / witch hunt mentality led directly to Trump and six months before that, it led directly to Brexit. How many clusterfucks is it going to take for people to wake up and realize that this has been a FAILED strategy and move on?
The media throws around the term " AI " a bit too much. They make it sound like we're bringing AI systems online on a daily basis to solve all of our problems.
I doubt we're anywhere close to a true, sentient AI and won't be in our lifetime.
Then again, this is the same media who calls everything an " assault rifle " regardless of what the weapon truly is.
I guess " building an AI " sounds sexier than " Bob is writing code " :D
I am always wondering why? Emily Crose. Why? Why bother putting so much energy in something so negative? Is it the technical stuff? The joy of building an A.I.? And was there really, by the love of God, no another data set to entice you more? I rather hear about an A.I. that find Hate-looks and Far-Out-Behaviour in cat photos! Hateful creatures, cats. Still you want to pet and cuddle them after the viciously preformed genocide on the entire bird population in the garden. So why the hate against these groups? Not that they are cat like (they don't have fur and the don't purr, pfff...) Is it that what you want? To unconsciously view all those hate and negative vibes for a long period of time? Or is it that you get off on being a goody two shoes. And you get credit in your social bubble. But then again. Why?
But then again. Why am I writing this.
Could you people please get along. You all have the same fears, and you all are in this together. You can not escape prison planet "earth". Not until you are dead. All this hate, suspicion, fear thy neighborgs...!
>twitter
>decorum
just fuck off already
The famous statement "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (incorrectly attributed to Voltaire) has always been the best summary of the principle and right of free speech. Given the sad state of civics education in the past three decades, we're seeing the result of this failure to learn this basic idea. When we put "feels" above principle, we get garbage like NEMESIS that ignores the far left crackpots and singles out the far right crackpots. People really need to listen to their elders' take on free speech and democracy and not be a sucker.
"Crose's motivation is to expose white nationalists who use more or less obscure, mundane, or abstract symbols -- or so-called dog whistles -- in their posts, such as the Black Sun and certain Pepe the frog memes. "
The Black Sun - fine you can call that one - I had to look that one up. Just about anything Pepe the frog is a post meant to troll people like this ex-NSA hacker.
In order to be a proper victim there has to be a group that's in power and victimizing you, and if one doesn't truly exist, or isn't as organized as you would like you have to take the extra step and create one. The group that is making fun of people fighting to be top-victim is obviously the best choice. We can ignore the fact that group isn't actually all-white, or even all male because if you say "certain Pepe the Frog" meme's and exempt any that are from minorities or females while declaring any from a white male racist you built a nice little sifting box.
How victim are you?
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With mental health issues.
Even when they kill tens of millions.
The real goal is to educate people
Whenever a liberal talks about "educating" someone, they're really talking about indoctrinating them.
So awesome. Grooming deplorables off the public network will make everything so nice. Should be a big help when hiring as well. Maybe voter registration some day. Yay.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
The obsession with the far-right is entirely in the mind of the Slashdot submitter, not the ex-army employee: The developer even admits that black sun, swastika and Pepe the frog images have non-racist usage.
What the Slashdot submitter meant, besides a click-bait headline that causes SJW signalling, is the rabid left doesn't use logos or graphical devices (images) to create an identity. Thus, this will excuse violent feminists, anti-fascists mobs, and other hate speech where the proponents don't call themselves Nazis.
Twitter is absolutely flooded with death threats from Muslims.
Load of "kill all cops" and "kill and white people" tweets.
Hateful messages against whites is commonplace.
That left-wing stuff all seems to be just fine with twitter.
Even the most moderate conservatives get censored, suspended, or have the accounts pulled all the time.
I wonder if they will open source their work, so that other like-minded individuals can use their program to ferret out communists, or Sufis, or Jews, or whoever else they want to round up.
Nazi stands for National Socialists. By our definition that is left wing, have the government run everything political movement.
Maybe he will also look into the Islamic extremists or the BLM or AntiFa rioters.
Naa that is not his agenda.
The first step toward controlling thought is to identify BadThink.
Will this detect rap lyrics which advocate the rape and murder of whites?
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Love it when the liberals try to hide their crazy behind "science". And they think no one ever sees through their deceptions. One more attack on free speech by powerless fluffies, screaming against the sky.
By picking low hanging fruits like image recognition.
Sounds like they really hate hate groups. Hopefully the system quickly bans itself.
Let's also use it on the left as they will do the same things.
This will end well.
Jai hind! Raj Karega Khalsa!
Aren't they?
The transgender movement is centrally organized by a group which openly seeks to overthrow the government of the USA (No.554) and is on a grant from Soros's Open Society Foundations to suppress public opposition to al-Qaeda (No.327795).
There's a lot of bullshit on 8chan/4chan but sometimes really important information comes through. It's an eye-opener when you look into it yourself and the information checks out. It's another eye-opener when nobody in the media is willing to report on it, not the R or the D or the independent media on either wing. It makes one wonder how many of these right-wing conspiracy theories that no one takes seriously might have some truth to them.
Now frog related publications, comments are banned and tracked in the USA too?
What next songs about satellites?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
No, conservatives have seen fit to re-brand feminism by pointing to its extreme elements. Is a small government type an anarchist? No but an anarchist would advocate for smaller government. Is someone concerned about illegal immigration a racist? No but a racist certainly would be. Likewise a feminist is not a man hater just because they advocate for treating women equally.
It makes me crazy to hear female conservative commentators make statements like "I'm not a feminist but..." and then state they're in favor of equality of the sexes or in other words, lay out a completely main stream feminist agenda. They're literally participating in the negative re-branding of feminism while saying they're all for it.
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The definition of a strawman. Please mod down.
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"But now gay people want to force bakers to bake them cakes "
How about another way of seeing it? How about gay people don't want to be denied basic commercial services provided to everyone else? If a baker can tell a gay couple they won't make them a cake they can tell a black couple the same.
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people actually arguing that if you are of any non-white color they you by definition can NOT be a racist.
Yes, there are lots of people who actually believe that.
Those people have never been confronted as follows:
Have them view this video, then ask them if there's any way they can say, with a straight face, that the video's subject is not a racist.
Waste of time, effort, etc.
What about Far Left symbols?
Imaginary verbal, written, or drawn communication that only Liberals can hear, read, or see and that are proof a racist message when the message itself would not be called racist by your average, rational person.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
"1. American immigration laws should be enforced."
Sure but some common sense compassion is just what's right here.
"2. There is no evidence that police in America apply different standards to white citizens and non-white citizens."
How about the first link I found on the subject that even sites its research. https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
So basically, white folks do far less time than black for selling drugs on average. Sure, it's not police exclusive but it is most certainly tied to the same core problem.That's a single example on the issue.
"3. Islamic fundamentalism motivates the violent act committed by many extremists and must be combated and defended against using within the framework of foreign diplomacy, foreign aid, military policy, and immigration policy."
Sure but on the other end forbidding immigration to some of the most vulnerable peoples of the world is criminal (in a moral context). Just because a person is Muslim doesnt mean they should be treated differently when they seek aid from mass violence. Proper screening? Of course. Banning? These are fucking human beings suffering here.
"4. Government benefits should only be provided to the demonstrably infirm or aged citizens and not be made available to able-bodied persons of working age."
So children in poor families should go malnourished thus greatly diminishing their future competitiveness and thus increasing the likelihood they will be unproductive as adults? What a truly amazing idea that is.
There's nothing truly racist happening here but minority communities who are disproportionately poor will suffer far more with such a policy than others.
"5. Restrictions on the sale, ownership, or possession of firearms punish the law-abiding and do not make any dent in violent crime."
Please see gun violence and homicide rates for any first world country of comparable wealth. You're creating the purist of fictions on this claim. Our mass gun ownership is making us far less safe than in comparable countries.
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No, nothing can go wrong. Targeting hate and far right? We see more hatred and violence from the left, now and historically.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Bring out the pitchforks someone posted a picture of a frog.
Well that's amazingly racist for someone so full of social justice.
Tranny anti-freedom activist ex-Stasi agent builds magic box that declares people to be witches even when no external sign of witchcraft is visible to normal people. No chance for abuse here, no, none at all...
A tool that can identify Pepe, the flag of Kekistan, cartons of milk, and the "Okay" emoji.
All of these have been deemed "white supremacist dog whistles" in the last couple of years. I'll let you in on a tip; each time, you're being trolled. Hard. And the clever thing is, by having a meltdown over something as benign as "they're drinking milk!", you're desensitising a lot of people to words like 'racism', 'nazi', 'white supremacy', by tossing them around so freely.
These were words used to carry an awful lot of impact. Now, you can be a racist for doing the "okay" hand signal, while sipping milk.
This revolutionary NSA hacker with her AI (is it just some sort of idiotic neural network trained to spot Pepe / look at Richard Spencer's Twitter feed and track new memes?) is going to be a massive success.
It'll be up there with the advances in AI used to power Twitter blocklists.
This AI must be stopped. Let's build an AI.
Ho boy, queue the butthurt right-wing snowflakes who will no doubt come in to deflect and project, as usual.
*grabs popcorn*
> Interestingly, if you read the chapter Acts in the New Testament of the Bible, you'll find that perfectly described as the way early churches and congregations lived. In commune with one another. Out of mutual love and respect for each other and for those of society, and simply preached their own moral code to others - no force implied or used.
That only lasted a short time and then we see things like: "For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Also, there was the whole thing with Ananias & Sapphira in Acts 5.
Oh look, another self-centered vigilante. Maybe vigilantes should be the next group to be targeted for harassment...
The message I got when you said this was a "strawman from the bottom of the YouTube comment barrel" was that this opinion isn't mainstream. Then you were shown an MTV video they made just to tell us this. I'd say this is a much more prominent opinion than you represented it as and not something you can marginalize as an extreme minority like you can for your other examples.
This is MTV telling us that black people can't be racist. It's funny how they hate racial privileges so much that they create a new one? How does that make sense?
All trannies are nutjobs and mentally ill. Emily Crose is a batshit insane tranny.
Liberal law center ranks ‘#merrychristmas’ as top Twitter ‘hate’ speech on Christmas day
https://knightstemplarinternational.com/2018/01/liberal-law-center-ranks-merrychristmas-top-twitter-hate-speech-christmas-day/
Free speech is hate speech, for those who hate free speech.
Often so called anti-fascists end up being fascist and intolerant themselves due to a lack of true empathy. The only empathy they can feel is exclusively for those they choose. Usually people they see as victims of injustice. They cannot see the other side of the story and are unable to see nuances. I personally blame this on egocentric and possibly narcissistic disorders. You see them on both sides of the political spectrum.
Bach says it all.
What happens when the symbolism gets co-opted by the targets? This has happened before, and the most recent case I can think of is Jewish forum posters choosing to put (((Echo Brackets))) on their handles.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
The people attacking, degrading and censoring me have been radical liberals and new wave feminists.
These are people I'd normally agree with except their agenda is being used for hate and power grabbing.
Brave new world.
(((Chosenites))) tend to be "hugged" with multiple parentheses...
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a CHANGE!!!!!!
If you work for US INTEL AGENCIES, take a much longer look, apologize for nearly 100 years of criminal activity, and promise the American people youâ(TM)ll never again make them pawns in your worldwide game of power and money...
It's a corporations video describing how they make steel tubes. The subtlety is extraordinary (except for the part where they say "final solution heat bath". That's just lingual gymnastics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ex-Army Grunt Is Building a Filter To Find Conservative Symbols on Twitter and Facebook
There. The same statement minus the leftist hyperbole. You're welcome.
"Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook"
Why not include far-left "dog whistle" symbols, too?
Or do you just need to look for things like "This is CNN" or "Copyright 2018 New York Times" and such?
(The preceding paragraph was hyperbole for effect, and possibly humor.)
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
Cause all extremism is bad, hmmkay.
Like your gender....
BDS is not just a group of noisy college students.
BDS is an organized international movement tied to the Muslim Brotherhood which fools stupid ignorant college students into supporting it. BDS is actually persuing the Islamo-supremacist goal of destroying Israel and shovinng the Jewish people into the Med, because apparently 57 Muslim nations are not enough. They want to use international sanctions to choke-off the only Jewish nation on Earth just as Hitler wanted to use his uboots to choke-off England. They make no secret of this. They're not supporting coexistence, this is war by other means as they try to help the Muslims re-take the land they lost in 1967 when they all ganged-up to attack Israel an try to finish what Hitler started.
This is all about Jew hatred, given a patina of legitimacy that trick idiots into thinking its better that Holocaust denial which is another camoflage for Jew hatred.
For those who are totally ignorant of History: The Muslim Brotherhood actually aligned itself with Adolf Hitler and provided soldiers to serve NAZI Germany; they are the one part of Hitler's war machine that the allies simply ignored after the war and presumed would fade back into the woodwork. There are actual (non-doctored) photos of Hitler with the grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in Berlin, and this evil alliance is part of the root of the serbo-croatian fighting, since some of those Muslim NAZI troops were involved in massacres in that region during WWII.
No civilized human being would align with BDS, just as no civilzed human being would be a NAZI.
instead of some "talking points" from a critic of Christianity, you would notice a major flaw in your own thinking:
A group of Christians who know each other and share a common set of values and beliefs may indeed voluntarily enter into a family-like arrangement (which superficially resembles socialism) this is fundamentally different from a bunch of strangers with dissimilar beliefs and values being forced by external mobs of rampaging revolutionaries, or by government, into socialism.
People who choose to live communally can choose to stop doing so at any time, and while they live that way they are living as they wish to. People who are forced to live communally by government and to satisfy the goals of government will eventually realize they are held in that condition at gunpoint and are not free to leave it - this is anti-freedom and the opposite of the Biblical model.
All American kids used to be taught the little saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
The message was that speech might annoy or offend but does NOT physically harm and thus must be tolerated. This is a fundamental principle of freedom and a free society and small-d democracy is not possible without this bedrock idea. If a child heard somebody taunting them and physically punched back, that child who did the punching would be in trouble. Teachers, school principles, parents, etc would instruct the child that no matter what little obnoxious Johnny might have SAID, or how it was said, there was no justification for throwing a physical punch in return. This was consistent with the pseudo-Voltaire quote and with the American principle of free speech.
The concept of "hate speech" is the evil twin of all of this. The presumption that anything I disagree with or do not want to hear can be construed as "hateful" is one of the worst diseases to ever afflict civilization - and the Left exposes this hyper-lie everytime they point at something they dislike as "hateful" but reject it when people who dislike what THEY say and label THAT as "hateful". This quasi-atandards are one-way, and thus not universal standards at all but are just tools of the mentally jack-booted.
The modern American left, however, has been working to re-invent education and the very concept of free speech in order to blot-out all competing speech and therefore blot-out all competing IDEAS. This is vile, and fundamentally anti-freedom, anti-liberty, and anti-American.
Next stop, bullying and harassment, pay inequality, child porn viewers etc. Should be interesting to see how far back the data aggregation will go and who will be acting on the data. My guess, 25 years and there will be a lot of crap under the rocks. I see the pros and the cons of it. I must admit it is a little unnerving.
You will find that fly over country doesn't have this problem. It is mostly on the coasts and localized to ghettos, south central LA, Oakland, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Baltimore. We should build walls around them, Escape from NY style.
Why not target all racists? There is plenty of racist propaganda online and it flows in all directions.
Whew. This article states its going after the far left socialist symbol as well. The swastika. NAtional ZocIalist Party. Simples.....