EU is ahead of the US

[OneFootInTheGrave]

In countering hate speech, or in other words, requesting censorhip.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3163cca-ba32-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080

The call from the European Commission for swifter action to delete racist posts and content from terrorists to promote online radicalisation follows a backlash against the proliferation of “fake” US election news on sites run by Facebook, Twitter and Google, which owns YouTube.
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US social media groups signed a “code of conduct” with Brussels in May that required them to “review the majority” of flagged hate speech within 24 hours, remove it if necessary and even develop “counter narratives” to confront the problem.
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“The last weeks and months have shown that social media companies need to live up to their important role and take up their share of responsibility when it comes to phenomena like online radicalisation, illegal hate speech or fake news.”

The world is new and brave indeed.

[Dinner]

The anwser to disagreeable speech is more free speech not censorship. Hell, unpopular speech is the only speech which needs protection.

[Jon Miller]

One big advantage of the EU is that it is not as far along on the path to becoming a Russian client state, even if some of the border countries are about to become so.

JM

[BeBMan]

delete racist posts and content from terrorists to promote online radicalisation

Online radicalisation is bad enough, no reason to promote it further

[Proteus_MST]

The anwser to disagreeable speech is more free speech not censorship. Hell, unpopular speech is the only speech which needs protection.

So, you would protect the speech the terrorists from IS use in order to get people in the western world into Salafism/Islamism and recruiit them as terrorists and fighters?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Who gets to decide what is "allowed speech" and what is "hate speech" - courts. Let them do their job, it is not governmnets job to ask companies to self-censor, or starting to censor from Brussels directly.

Think about the children. I am serious here, you will have some sick fvck decide what is "fake news" and what is not. That is the future though, and the future is now, don't brainwash yourself that it is about salafism or racism - it is, as usual, about criticism of our government where this new powers will be deployed the most. Just check the "fake news" list from WaPo. Even Ron Paul made it (the list).

[Main_Brain]

A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes

[Kidlicious]

So, you would protect the speech the terrorists from IS use in order to get people in the western world into Salafism/Islamism and recruiit them as terrorists and fighters?

We let them communicate so that they can be investigated for actual crimes. The EU isn't doing that. It's harming political opponents which is clear oppression of rights.

[giblets]

The most harmful hateful views are those held by a majority of the population, and those will never get regulated by "hate speech" legislation.

[Kidlicious]

The most harmful hateful views are those held by a majority of the population, and those will never get regulated by "hate speech" legislation.

Erm.... hate speech against white men is not illegal.

[giblets]

Wow, maybe white men aren't oppressed?

[Kidlicious]

Wow, maybe white men aren't oppressed?

Not even when they get murdered?

[giblets]

Is their murder in any way connected to their whiteness or maleness?

[Ben Kenobi]

One big advantage of the EU is that it is not as far along on the path to becoming a Russian client state, even if some of the border countries are about to become so.

There's Crazy. There's Oerdin crazy and then there's Jon Miller.

You used to be one of the saner posters. WTH happened?

[Kidlicious]

Is their murder in any way connected to their whiteness or maleness?

Yeah, not because they are thugs on PCP.