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Facebook Signs European Union Pledge To Suppress Loosely Defined ‘Hate Speech’ And Promote ‘Counter
breitbart.com ^ | 5/31/16 | Liam Deacon and Raheem Kassam

Posted on 05/31/2016 9:59:25 AM PDT by ColdOne

The European Commission has today announced a partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft in order to crack down on what it classes as “illegal hate speech” while “criminaliz[ing]” perpetrators and “promoting independent counter-narratives” that the European Union favours.

A press release from the Commission this morning claims the new initiative has been set up “to respond to the challenge of ensuring that online platforms do not offer opportunities for illegal online hate speech to spread virally”.

The move has been branded “Orwellian” by Members of the European Parliament, and digital freedom groups have already pulled out of any further discussions with the Commission, calling the new policy “lamentable”.

The unelected, executive branch of the European Union (EU) released a “Code of Conduct” today that “includes a series of commitments to combat the spread of illegal hate speech online in Europe” developed “together with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft (‘the ITcompanies’)” who have “signed up”.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; US: New York; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alreadyposted; censorship; election2016; facebook; google; istandwithhatespeech; microsoft; newyork; trump; twitter; tyranny; youtube

1 posted on 05/31/2016 9:59:25 AM PDT by ColdOne
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full title....Facebook Signs European Union Pledge To Suppress Loosely Defined ‘Hate Speech’ And Promote ‘Counter Narratives’
2 posted on 05/31/2016 10:00:04 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: ColdOne

I HATE the EU.


3 posted on 05/31/2016 10:01:47 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: ColdOne

Okay, so how do they handle posts from the US, that may have links to friends in the EU?.........................


4 posted on 05/31/2016 10:02:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: ColdOne
There is a new play at theaters all over Brussels and in EU capitol cities, it's called "Spooning with Hitler",- a new age way to conquer hate.

And it ain't a Mel Brooks comedy, folks.

5 posted on 05/31/2016 10:04:26 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: ColdOne

Just one more reason for the UK to bail from this idiotic plan to destroy their national sovereignty!!


6 posted on 05/31/2016 10:09:54 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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The UK has already implemented insane hate speech rules...actually banning people from entering the country, if they are too ‘hateful’.


7 posted on 05/31/2016 10:36:18 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew

If you’re STILL hazy about where NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the elitist planned follow-on legislation would ultimately take us, check out the 71 minute video at the link below. You should get the nuts of the thing in the first 10 minuutes or so.
NAFTA and beyond is but another effort to consolidate formerly sovereign nations into regions to more easily pull them together after further conditioning of the citizenry into the globalist wet dream of a ONE WORLD OLIGARCHY! Then remember that HEIDI CRUZ wrote the CFR “paper” supporting NAFTA while with Goldman Sachs! You draw your own conclusions as regards the suspicions of some that Ted and Heidi were globalist JUDAS GOATS!
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8 posted on 05/31/2016 11:53:05 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: ColdOne

Pay attention folks...this is a direct response to comments on Facebook British News sources...including the Daily Mail.
Check out Daily Mail facebook and see what I mean....pay close attention to stories about the muslims in Europe. Have fun....


9 posted on 05/31/2016 12:46:22 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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