Posted on 01/21/2016 6:06:24 PM PST by Olog-hai
In a worrying development for free speech and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook has announced a Europeanwide initiative to combat so-called online extremism and "hate speech."
The social media giant pledged to spend over $1 million on the new "Initiative for Civil Courage Online," which it launched in Berlin in partnership with the German Ministry of Justice and other organizations. It has even hired a unit of publisher Bertelsmann to monitor and delete "racist" posts on its site in Germany.
But critics are concerned the initiative will be used to suppress the free speech of conservative and populist critics of the mass Muslim migration to Europe. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at lifezette.com ...
There is quite an opportunity for Facebook to go the way of MySpace here.
Will the sharia/caliphate type even let there be a Facebook anymore?
Are they going to zot them?
Welcome back to the 1930’s.
Germany is run by ex-East German Stasi types, and Zuckerberg is helping them out. Chalk one up for Communism.
I’d delete my account, if I had one.
Control of Information is essential for totalitarianism. You can’t have Truth anywhere, for it is what makes people “Free”......that is why they have banned Truth(God) from our schools since the 60s.
Why? There is no ability to “think critically” and understand anything when your whole foundation (knowledge) is based on Lies. That is what Common Core does-—embeds a Marxist/Freudian Lens on all information, history, literature-—and NOW Math. (they completely destroyed most curricula in the 70s but it was harder to do it with Math until we got dumber brainwashed immoral parent/s.)
First I was calling them Bigbrobook. Then I thought naw more like Brownshirtbook.
But I think they are actually Shariabook.
Why are conservatives funding this crap?
Facebook. Helping the Chancellor ensure your papers are in order!
The social media giant pledged to spend over $1 million on the new "Initiative for Civil Courage Online," which it launched in Berlin in partnership with the German Ministry of Justice and other organizations. It has even hired a unit of publisher Bertelsmann to monitor and delete "racist" posts on its site in Germany. But critics are concerned the initiative will be used to suppress the free speech of conservative and populist critics of the mass Muslim migration to Europe.
Right under our nose — modern day book burning. In Germany of all places.
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