Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours

Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by hackuser on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:28PM (#11808195)

I'm not sure you're correct:

> Twitter is structured in such a way that direct censorship can't be differentiated between

Twitter provides data to researchers, at least in some situations, and may provide data about these events.

> Differentiating between "left" and "right" political posts is not possible from an objective, programmatic standpoint.

AFAIK, there are well-known methods in political science for defining left and right.

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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by kazinator on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:19PM (#11808740)

> > Differentiating between "left" and "right" political posts is not possible from an objective, programmatic standpoint.

> AFAIK, there are well-known methods in political science for defining left and right.

Small problem: political science isn't computer science.

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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by tsmffh on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @09:44PM (#11811589)

Let alone a 'science'.

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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by Nullabillity on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:22PM (#11809342)

> Twitter provides data to researchers, at least in some situations, and may provide data about these events.

Small problem: if the data they provide to the public can't be trusted, then why would the data provided to scientists be any better?

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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by rcpt on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:48PM (#11811786)

They send tweets in real-time to data miners. The delete requests don't show up until later. All you need to do is break their terms of service by not honoring the deletes

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