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More Than 50 Nations Launch 'Paris Call' To Fix Hate Speech and Cyberattacks; China and Russia Not Among Signatories, Trump Administration Reluctant To Sign (reuters.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday launched a push to regulate the internet.
France and U.S. technology giants, including Microsoft, are pushing for governments and companies worldwide to sign up for a new initiative aimed at establishing regulations for the internet, to fight such online threats as cyber attacks, hate speech and online censorship. A report adds: With the launch of a declaration entitled the 'Paris call for trust and security in cyberspace,' French President Emmanuel Macron is hoping to revive efforts to regulate cyberspace after the last round of United Nations negotiations failed in 2017.
In the document, which is supported by many European countries but, crucially, not China or Russia, the signatories urge governments to beef up protections against cyber meddling in elections and prevent the theft of trade secrets. The Paris call was initially pushed for by tech companies but was redrafted by French officials to include work done by U.N. experts in recent years. [...] In another sign of the Trump administration's reluctance to join international initiatives it sees as a bid to encroach on U.S. sovereignty, French officials said Washington might not become a signatory, though talks are continuing.
In the document, which is supported by many European countries but, crucially, not China or Russia, the signatories urge governments to beef up protections against cyber meddling in elections and prevent the theft of trade secrets. The Paris call was initially pushed for by tech companies but was redrafted by French officials to include work done by U.N. experts in recent years. [...] In another sign of the Trump administration's reluctance to join international initiatives it sees as a bid to encroach on U.S. sovereignty, French officials said Washington might not become a signatory, though talks are continuing.
So the idea is to censor the internet, in order to prevent censorship???
"aimed at establishing regulations for the internet, to fight such online threats as cyber attacks, hate speech and online censorship"
Anybody else see a problem with that statement?
They'll have to make up their minds, they can't have both.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Speech is NOT an emotion. There is no such thing as "hate speech"
Either you have free speech or you don't.
Trying to label "some" speech as hate speech is nothing more then censorship. PERIOD.
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Only children censor.
Adults discuss and even laugh at "taboo" subjects.
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.
So we're going to fight "hate speech" and at the same time fight "online censorship"? Oh, this should be good....
As usual, socialists are showing their true colors.
Thankfully Trump's distrust and dislike of them will block this from taking hold in the US. This is a classic example of a power grab "for the greater good" by nation's that do not believe in the freedom of speech.
To censor hate speech, they will need to put people in charge of what is hate speech, which naturally they will define to increase their power. And to enable those people to take action, they'll have to have a controlling stake of key parts of the internet.
As for calling out China for not people a part of this, why the hell would they care? They already enforce such behaviors in their nation to great effect. I can only wonder if this request was modeled after such a disgusting setup.
post a threat to kill the president of the United States and see how long until you get a visit from Uncle Sam and his G-Men.
There's nothing wrong with censoring threats of violence, and I saw nothing in the articles to indicate anything more was being proposed. Now, to be fair both articles were lite on substance but we could do with a bit more of a swing in the other direction. Where I am (America) we've got bi-weekly mass shootings and daily shootings, many of which are racially motivated. I'm getting more than a bit nervous and I'm a white guy. I don't want us being the next Reich.
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Hate speech, e.g. outright calls for violence, is and should be illegal in all civilized societies. Making threats, including thinly veiled ones, illegal isn't so much censorship as preserving public order.
This is clearly the far-left strategy:
1. Pretend to be against violence.
2. Ban violence.
3. Claim that speech you don't like is violence.
4. Ban any speech you don't like.
5. Beat the living fuck out of anyone saying things you don't like (after all, it's just self defense).
It should really have been obvious all along, but it wasn't until they rolled out the concept of "microagression" that people really started to clue in.
You seem to think that hate speech = threats of violence. That may have been the case back in the day, but now that we're living in PC social justice hell, hate speech isn't just threats of violence, it's anything that offends people. If the world is going to censor "offensive stuff" on the internet, then we might as well just shut the whole thing down right now.