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Facebook Begins Campaign to Purge Europe of Xenophobic, Extremist Posts
- bronlund 11y agoNo free speech for you!
- elthran 11y agoNot in Europe, no. But do you really consider all speech to be equal and deserving of being free?
- bruceb 11y agoYes.
- rawTruthHurts 11y agoExcept those that restrict freedom of speech
- A_COMPUTER 11y agoI don't believe that restricting free flow of ideas is compatible with an ostensibly democratic government. So it is more like, I consider it an unfortunate side-effect of freedom that people can say things I find of negative value.
- bruceb 11y ago"Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, wasted no time leaning in and explaining that because hate speech “has no place in our society,” the site will be implementing its “Initiative for Civil Courage Online,” which will slowly but surely purge Europe of all xenophobic rhetoric. Facebook is doing this by allocating $1.09 million to support non-government organizations that are attempting to curb online threats and hate speech." There is a group: https://www.facebook.com/onlinecivilcourage https://www.facebook.com/onlinecivilcourage Wonder what constitutes "Hate Speech" Judging by the comments on their page, they will not do that great of a job purging speech they don't like.
- ManlyBread 11y ago>Wonder what constitutes "Hate Speech" It's anything that the people in charge find offensive.
- smonff 11y agoThey should also do something for sexist content. They said they have rules for harrassement, but it's quite rare we manage to be heard when we found problematic content.
- th0br0 11y agoAt least in Germany, they've outsourced this to a sub-group of the Bertelsmann company ([1]). They're a big (international) media company. This kind of has a sour taste, given that they probably have economic stakes in the whole game. [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-germany-idUSKCN0UT1GM http://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-germany-idUSKCN0UT1G...