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Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft agree to help EU combat hate speech (Prelude to Censorship)
Bloomberg ^

Posted on 05/31/2016 7:07:36 AM PDT by quesney

Tech giants are cracking down on hate speech.

Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft have all agreed to the European Commission's new "code of conduct," which aims to combat illegal hate speech and terrorist propaganda.

These new regulations, which were announced Tuesday, will require the tech companies to review the majority of hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified—and remove the post if it's truly offensive and malicious.

Tech companies will also have to promote independent counter-narratives to hate speech published online.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; censorship; euhatespeech; europeanunion; facebook; france; germany; google; greece; hatespeech; istandwithhatespeech; microsoft; nato; socialmedia; stasi; syriza; twitter; unitedkingdom; youtube
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This will be expanded to include speech by American conservatives - count on it. They're doing it already, ahead of the election.

Time and time again, terrorism is eventually used to restrict American civil liberties. This will be no different.

1 posted on 05/31/2016 7:07:37 AM PDT by quesney
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To: quesney
Disagree with a liberal = HATE SPEECH

I bet Islamic terrorist groups will not be treated leniently if at all.

2 posted on 05/31/2016 7:10:54 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: quesney; Jim Robinson

Alternatives to search engines are fairly easy to find.

A conservative alternative to Facebook??? Does anyone know of such a site?

Jim Robinson...calling Jim Robinson....you are being paged by: “Create a conservative alternative to Facebook”. Please pick up the white courtesy phone. :>)


3 posted on 05/31/2016 7:11:06 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: quesney

“Hate speech.”

Progressives (leftists, democrats, socialists) keep using this phrase, I don’t think it means what they think it means.

In America your “hate speech” is my “free speech” - you just hate to hear what I have to say ‘cause it doesn’t comply with the (democrat socialist) party line or your “feelings” or your idea of what’s politically correct.

“Daddy, tell me what freedom was like when you were a little boy?”

“No time now, gotta finish hoeing this row to plant cabbages for victory, son”


4 posted on 05/31/2016 7:11:21 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: quesney

Not just a prelude.

It is the first chapter.


5 posted on 05/31/2016 7:14:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: quesney

Sticks and stones
May break my bones
but words
can never hurt me

true yesterday, true today and true tomorrow.


6 posted on 05/31/2016 7:15:53 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: quesney

“Hate Speech” formerly known as free speech.


7 posted on 05/31/2016 7:18:01 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: TMA62

I bet Islamic terrorist groups will not be treated leniently if at all.
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Of COURSE. Anti Semitic speech, anti female rhetoric, Jihadist propaganda will all be deemed as ‘cultural’ by the lefties.


8 posted on 05/31/2016 7:19:56 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: quesney
require the tech companies to review the majority of hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified—and remove the post if it's truly offensive and malicious.

And who will decided if the content is "truly offensive?" Invariably, progressive fascists.

9 posted on 05/31/2016 7:21:59 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: normbal

From today's Pookie Toons

10 posted on 05/31/2016 7:22:36 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: xzins
There isn't one.

That's the point.

This is one the reasons the EU needs to be consigned to the ash heap of history.

11 posted on 05/31/2016 7:24:36 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: quesney

This is why this year’s Presidential election is so very, very important!


12 posted on 05/31/2016 7:26:35 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: quesney
Time and time again, terrorism is eventually used to restrict American civil liberties. This will be no different.

Terrorism is merely the cover. The real enemy of these entities is conservatism.

13 posted on 05/31/2016 7:26:54 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: quesney

It will all backfire, mark my words.


14 posted on 05/31/2016 7:27:23 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ealgeone

Please see post number 12. Thank-you!


15 posted on 05/31/2016 7:28:07 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Yep. I agree!


16 posted on 05/31/2016 7:30:35 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: fella

Keep a close eye on DJT.


17 posted on 05/31/2016 7:32:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: quesney
So a group of American corporations have agreed to impose European “hate speech” laws on Americans. Contrary to statements, in Europe these laws are never used to curtail Islamic radicals. They are used to censor any opinion that leftist bureaucrats deem to be “far right.” And now lefty geeks from Silicon Valley will do their work for them.

Wasn't Facebook, just the other day, courting a slew of cuckservatives with promises to be more neutral in their trending news leads? And the whole while that Zuck was wooing the cucks, this was in the works.

Hey cucks! There's a reason you earn the name. Get cozy with leftists and liars and then get kicked in teeth. What is it about this little drama that you just can't seem to figure out?

And this isn't the only news out of social media today. The creepy executive from Reddit hinted that they wouldn't be above blackmailing their own users, since they know secrets about them that they'd rather not be made public.

If you wanted to know the reality of social media, today is a day of clarity.

18 posted on 05/31/2016 7:37:47 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
...which aims to combat illegal hate speech and terrorist propaganda... will require the tech companies to review the majority of hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified -- and remove the post if it's truly offensive and malicious... will also have to promote independent counter-narratives to hate speech published online.
This is unlikely to be something that will be the reverse of what they do now -- which is to censor civilization and promote mentally ill freakshows, socialism, and jihad -- so, they'll have to be shut down in the US, which is where the bulk of their revenue comes from.


19 posted on 05/31/2016 7:42:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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MSM has been censoring Words/Ideas for 100 years to get the herd animals in line with their agenda (to destroy the Christian Worldview in children to normalize Paganism (sodomy/baby-killing (vice in Just Laws)) to collapse Western Civilization) for total slavery.

Vice promotion 24/7 in all media and since 1970 in all skools (situational “ethics”) to little children in indoctrination centers so children will be imprisoned, embedding dependence and normalizing tribal, puerile (group-think/peer-pressured) behaviors. Fear of Man instead of Fear of God (God is erased and marginalized/banned from the public square as Satanism is promoted 24/7 (sodomy/baby-killing/pederasty).

Now, we just are aware of what they were up to—and some of us are AWAKE only because the sodomite socialist pederasts are having trouble controlling ALL the information that we are getting. They still only report UN molestation of “girls” when boys are more prevalent.

With the internet since the 90s, the Truth has gotten through to a few curious intellectuals, who understood the power of Words (ideas) and how it can control “beliefs” (emotions), especially the luring seduction of paganism and hedonism-—the lazy, nihilism of the Left because they understood as the Ancient Greeks that Vice creates Slaves ONLY.

Truth will set us Free. Without Truth, you have Fascism (no Freedom)——and our children are Mind Controlled since John Dewey (1930 with lies) (which is all what publik skools are for-—indoctrination camps into Fichte’s wet dream (1810) where children remain so ignorant and dumb (cognitive dissonance if exposed to Truth) that they actually believe “Snow is Black” (and boys can be girls with mutilation and drugging, of course).

Vice promotion is the MSM gig—to destroy moral formation in the masses to create herds of chaos, immoral “bots” who can be bought and controlled by a Soros.

MSM has never exposed the unjust laws (socialism/Marxism) that have overtaken this country for 100 years-—but have created the Hegelian Dialectic to get us to “accept” our slavery-—happy slavery for the sodomite, satanic, pederastic elites of the secret societies (Ba’al Worshippers who need the little children).

Now, the publik skool conditioned “women” gladly kill their own genetic offspring and offer up their little children to the State controlled Ba’al altars——of State indoctrination—to condition them and control every warped, sick desire they have..........which is embedded by their sick, perverted Neo/Marxist curricula (NCLB) Common Core.

So-—yes, they are trying to get control of ALL information, the way Hitler did in Germany. We just don’t realize that they have TOTAL control of the minds of all the children in “publik schools” and the brainwashing is destroying their ability to be “Free” and understand Truth/Reality and EVERYTHING will be perverted, warped (by Billy Ayers worldview being planted into your children—the rape of the child’s mind).

I see this “concern” of the dangers in Twitter/Facebook, etc., but it is forced into the skooling (indoctrination into lies/misinformation ) that our children are getting NOW-—which is much more dangerous. When you destroy the foundation of “Truth” in little children (Western Civ/Chritianity) you will destroy their ability for Free Will (choice)-—they will only be little socialist Bernie Bots-—incapable of critical thinking and ignorant of all the Wisdom of the Ages.


20 posted on 05/31/2016 7:44:11 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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