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Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by macspoofing on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:57PM (#18285711)
Indeed. Also who defines what 'hate speech' is and isn't?
Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by dmix on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:00PM (#18285740)
If recent history is any example it's an ever expanding and often arbitrary list depending on an individuals sensitivity level (particularly when it comes down to the individual level like mod's on subreddits or employees at Twitter).

It seems many very vocal people on the internet are essentially pushing an idea that the most sensitive people should be defining what those boundaries are for everyone and the list of things people can be outraged could change at any time, and ignorance of these boundaries is not sufficient excuse.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by dx87 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:19PM (#18285971)
A Google presentation titled "The Good Censor" was recently leaked where they talk about how themselves, Twitter, and Facebook, should censor free speach. They say that they want to move to a "European model" where civility is valued over freedom.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17961806/google-leaked-r...

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by Tomte on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:42PM (#18286191)
I cannot speak for the whole of Europe, but the German model certainly isn't "civility over freedom", but practical concordance: you have several basic rights which unfortunately almost always collide in some form with each other, and you find a way to give maximum effect to all of them.

The difference between America and Germany — very broadly speaking — is that America goes for the local maximum (free speech trumps everything) and Germany goes for a global maximum.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by charlesism on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:24PM (#18287118)
Mod does. Don't like the mod, get out!

Social networks don't control the police and jails. They have always had the right - though they neglected it because they are lazy and delusional - to moderate content on their own servers.

It's so clear to me that "one size fits all" social networks will go away. They are inherently dysfunctional. Putting everyone from terrorists to toddlers on the same forums was never a good idea.

Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by nopzor on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:33PM (#18287201)
No, they neglected it because they originally wanted protections afforded to “common carriers”. Now they are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Re:Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech ... by blueboo on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:53PM (#18286827)
The dead, at the very least.