It is amusing when it comes to the social media platforms.....when you become the de facto main stream media, and that is judged by advertising spend, the only objective benchmark, you should expect to have media regulation follow you.
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Europe gives Facebook, Twitter final warning on hate speech - CNN
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It is amusing when it comes to the social media platforms.....when you become the de facto main stream media, and that is judged by advertising spend, the only objective benchmark, you should expect to have media regulation follow you.
Speed cameras at lights have long shown to actually cause more driver hesitation, cause more speeding at yellows to beat the red, cause severe braking and potential for rear ends than actually stopping people running reds. I did a masisve study on this for my policing class as BC started to introduce them everywhere. They are sheer revenue collectors under the guise of safety. Everyone also knows when it is quota day and the radar cameras are out in force as well.
Epsilon-delta
Banned
It's about time.
StrategyFan
Member
does the eu want to help pay for the moderation costs?
Cost of doing business. Deal with it.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Out of curiosity, what platforms are microsoft talking about? Xbox or windows in general?
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Totally with the EU on this.
Edit: is anything being done about Russia fanning the flames on these platforms too?
Edit: is anything being done about Russia fanning the flames on these platforms too?
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Facebook has its uses still for photos and whatnot. On the other hand, I've had my account deactivated for ages. I do like knowing it's still there if I need it though.
Twitter can go though. Does WAY more harm than good. Burn it.
Mixer. Everyone uses it.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Regardless of Facebook's benefits, it just isn't worth it now. Time to lock the doors.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Finally hate speech will be gone forever.
YuriLowell
Member
Beam.
Yeah, not surprising coming form the Brookings institute, especially that dumb little dig at the shibboleth of left wing intolerance. The fact is societies have always regulated allowable speech, and even the US has limits, and rightfully so.
ClosingADoor
Member
Why should the government pay companies for following the law?
LegendofJoe
Member
Hell no, do media organizations ask for money from the government to NOT run racial hate advertisements? No, they don't because allowing that is grossly irresponsible and should not be tolerated by a civilized society.
They have hate speech laws all over the EU, this isn't anything new.
StrategyFan
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i mean they'd basically build a censored version for europeans because americans love their hate speech
it would be awkward seeing replies to posts that got censored in your region
it would be awkward seeing replies to posts that got censored in your region
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN!
tonysidaway
Member
I'll go with UCL, the RAC Foundation, and RoSPA on this. Studies by random guys on the internet, no matter how massive, aren't very impressive.
Um. Police absolutely do that and related practices. Do you think the incentives of government officials perfectly align with the public good?
That said, I see no reason to believe that the primary motivation in this case is revenue.
The proposals are actually not great and will likely lead more to overzealous content removal and filtering, especially copyrighted stuff. Basically DMCA on overdrive.
I expect a lot of NGOs, digital rights groups and leftwing parties to be opposed.
By the way, new tax rules are incoming, focused on revenue rather than profit.
I expect a lot of NGOs, digital rights groups and leftwing parties to be opposed.
By the way, new tax rules are incoming, focused on revenue rather than profit.
If we take away the racist bigot's ability to spout racist/bigoted things on social media, how will I know who to hate/dislike?
I don't like racists, obviously... But I want to know who they are so I can know to dislike them. Social media lets them out themselves and all the people who agree with them. And if social media is forced to delete these people's hateful words, it's like the hateful words they said didn't exist...and were wiped from the record.
No. These words should be draped around these people's necks like an albatross. Forever following them so good people know not to hire them, associate with them, or have any business with them.
I would hate to accidentally like a racist person because no one let them espouse their racism.
I don't like racists, obviously... But I want to know who they are so I can know to dislike them. Social media lets them out themselves and all the people who agree with them. And if social media is forced to delete these people's hateful words, it's like the hateful words they said didn't exist...and were wiped from the record.
No. These words should be draped around these people's necks like an albatross. Forever following them so good people know not to hire them, associate with them, or have any business with them.
I would hate to accidentally like a racist person because no one let them espouse their racism.
I wonder why there are so many salty ass posts concerning this.
@nephtes
You don't know enough people for that logic to work.
PdotMichael
Banned
Any sane person would argue that the dignity and physical integrity of people, groups and ethnics are more worth to protect than whatever nonsense that post is.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Republicans are not going to allow facebook and twitter to go down, they're the online equivalent of fox news for them, they play a vital role in their strategy.
Hari Seldon
Member
The age of big international internet services coming to an end? It is hard to run something as big as twitter or facebook on human moderation I would assume.
On the contrary, I've gotten rid of several friends recently because their recent social media postings allowed me to discern they were actually racist pieces of shit all along, in the closet about it.
True Savior
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PJV3
Member
It's becoming a business and a way for nations to fuck with each other, if it was just normal people I would have more faith in rational thought winning out.
Follow the law dont get fine.
It is nor hard.
Oh and they fined Scania a couple of days ago.
SuperBanana
Banned
Facebook when posting hate speech:
When posting a bare breast:
When posting a bare breast:
Yeah, the problem should definitely be ignored, and no action should be taken.
/s
Saint Gregory
Member
Thank God, so tired of hate masquerading as "opinions". Take that shit back underground where it belongs.
entremet
Member
It's impossible. You're talking about billions of post per day per platform. It would have to be algorithmic.
I dont always agree with every decision the EU makes, but Godspeed on this right here. Goddamn the rest of the world is so apathetic and spineless in regards to this shit that its crazy.
No more warnings after this hopefully. Just fine these fuckers into goddamn dust if they fail to reign this shit in.
No more warnings after this hopefully. Just fine these fuckers into goddamn dust if they fail to reign this shit in.
This. We kinda really need it and these pricks that run these enterprises are making shitloads of billions off of hosting all this discourse poison.
PdotMichael
Banned
You wouldn't need hate speech level content to find out that they are racist.
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