Posted on 10/25/2018 12:37:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A group of civil rights organizations is pushing technology companies to create policies to more effectively address hate speech and extremist groups.
The six organizations, joined by 40 other organizations who echoed the call, wrote in a report that they want the platforms to take more firm stances against “racism, sexism, xenophobia, religious bigotry, homophobia and transphobia,” and enforce policies against hate speech and extremist groups more strictly.
The groups, which include the Center for American Progress, Color Of Change, Free Press, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and the Southern Poverty Law Center, said that they plan to release report cards next year of how social media firms are handling the recommendations.
“It is not enough for companies to apologize after incidents like last year’s Charlottesville rally and last week’s Proud Boys attacks,” said Brandi Collins, senior campaign director at Color Of Change. “They must quickly, assertively, and proactively remove the forces who threaten our democracy by adopting and implementing these policies.”
Major technology companies have fumbled for solutions as white supremacists and other extremist groups have organized and grown in numbers on their platforms.
Facebook attempted to purge its platform of white nationalist and supremacist groups last year in the wake of the riots in Charlottesville, Va., that turned fatal, leading to a wave of other tech platforms making similar removals.
Platforms like Twitter and Reddit held onto being bastions of unbridled free speech until hateful content became too pervasive to ignore.
Many, especially those against platforms tightening their speech standards, have painted the matter as a conflict between free speech and censorship, however, the organizations argued in their report that the lines between the two values are more nuanced than that.
They argued that hate speech and coordinated hate against specific groups forms its own censorship.
“Online tools have been used to coordinate attacks, including violence against people of color, immigrants, religious minorities, LGBTQIA people, women and people with disabilities,” the report reads. “This chills the online speech of the targeted groups, curbs democratic participation, and threatens people’s safety and freedom in real life.”
They want war, pure and simple. They’re pushing, pushing, pushing non-stop, the bigoted, fascist, socialist, atheist, queer, feminist, ignorant youths, manginas and trespassers.
Breathe...
“Last week’s Proud Boys attacks” - Is that the one where the AntiFa puke threw a glass bottle at the Proud Boys, then got his clock cleaned?
I’d like to se them take a stand against Constitutionphobia, Commonsenseaphobia, Conservaphobia, and Normalpeopleophobia, and stamp out the hate speech of the Gay Supremacists, Americasuxitutionalists, and OnlyMySideHasRightsophiles.
SCOTUS has already declared hate speech protected speech.
Who, specifically, gets to determine what qualifies as “hate speech?” Who, specifically, gets to appoint/anoint them? Because all this proposal does is hand these people a very big stick that runs counter to the First Amendment.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
Translation: Leftists groups want their critics classified as purveyors of hate speech.
USSC.
Companies like GE, IBM, Intel, TI and AMD?
Or 'media' companies like FB, Twitter et al?
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