Posted on 12/08/2015 11:15:14 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009
Googleâs chairman wants algorithms to censor the internet for hate speech - Quartz
In an op-ed for The New York Times (paywall), Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, inserted himself directly into the middle of a heated debate about the line between fighting terrorismâs online reach and internet censorship.
âItâs our responsibility to demonstrate that stability and free expression go hand in hand,â he writes. âWe should build tools to help de-escalate tensions on social mediaâsort of like spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment.â
His words came just after Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, called on Silicon Valley to âdisrupt ISILâ last weekend in Washington DC. Clinton said it is crucial to âdeprive jihadists of virtual territoryâ by shutting off their means of communication.
With the rapid rise of ISIL and its sophisticated online recruitment and propaganda efforts, tech companies have been struggling with finding the balance between preventing terrorists from disseminating their message and being perceived as government tools for controlling the internet. Schmidt underlined that tech platforms should target terroristsâ social media accounts and remove video contentâsomething that Google, Facebook, and Twitter already strive to do.
Schmidt did not provide details about his proposed âspell-checkersâ for hate, but his suggestion may prove difficult to realize.
The debate about free speech versus hate speech is already a very controversial one, both in the United States where free speech is protected by the constitution, and elsewhere. People can barely agree on the definition of hate speech, so building algorithms to balance that fine line would be a tall order.
There are some other, less complicated ideas out there for fighting terrorists online. Donald Trump offered at a rally in South Carolina that maybe we should just shut down the internet. Trump said:
   "Weâre losing a lot of people because of the internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand whatâs happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, âOh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.â These are foolish people."
Instead of policing EVERYONE'S activity on the net, why not kick out and not let the suspects in the country?
duckduckgo
"Bake some cookies" could in reality become a rallying cry to kill Muslims.
So if I searched through Google,using keywords “Muslim mosque Kill Devil Hills NC” it would jump out because of two or three words?
Hmmmm !
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If Google is going to attempt to violate the letter and spirit of the law embodied in the 1st Amendment right to free speech, then Google should be the first party to forfeit its protection. Perhaps Google should be seized by the Federal Government for its violations of the Constitution and anti-trust violations restricting monopolies and cartels and/or eminent domain, breakup the organization, and sell its assets on the open market to companies who must compete for contracts to provide the former essential services.
Most people won't care as long as they can lookup sports stats and sports news.
Google’s chairman wants us to use another search engine. I already do!
DuckDuckGO!
Schmidt and his like are brainless totalitarians. They are attempting to dumb down the population and shut down civil discourse. Here are the results. Shills who can’t listen and reason.
Histerical brats who won’t be able to function in the real world.
....”Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious⦠a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?â Christakis wrote. âAmerican universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.â...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/08/yale-couple-flees-classroom-amid-free-speech-chill/
Have fun attempting to employ these future unemployable useful idiots Schmidt!
I got along just fine without Google for years and will be happy to do so again.
I’ve got your ‘hate speech’ right here!
GFY!
As usual, they confuse cause and effect.
ISIS isn’t a threat because of their messaging- they could try to recruit all year in a Lutheran seminary and they would get no takers- ISIS is a threat because there is nothing competing with their message. All “opposition” is weak and disorganized and politically correct... in effect, no opposition at all. The world is a vacuum without a masculine, purposeful United States and the radicals will simply fill it.
Goes again to the mind of the liberal- they only think of how to restrict or destroy, never how to uplift and free.
I hate google.
I hate google.
I hate google.
Did you get that, google?
...they can also start with The Nation of Islam and Louis (We must rise up and kill Whitey).......Ms. Lynch, where are you when you are needed...????
Post #1: With Google's latest announcement, we'll be all the better having them tell us what we can read and say...
Now that is tyranny. Pure tyranny!
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