It's okay to use hate speech when discussing hate speech, though.
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Trolling with hate speech is no less bigoted than earnest hate speech.
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GUTFELD: Hate speech -- hate speech, sorry to say, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Other Infowars videos contained hate speech against Muslims and another with hate speech against transgender people.
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How it works: To build a good hate speech detector, you need some actual hate speech.
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Illegal hate speech in Europe is defined as hate speech that has the potential to incite violence.
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Hate speech is one of the hardest, because determining if something is hate speech is very linguistically nuanced.
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Israeli law does not criminalize political hate speech, unlike hate speech directed at racial, ethnic and religious groups.
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Two videos contained hate speech against Muslims, and a third contained hate speech against transgender people, sources said.
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How does Disqus's professed commitment to eradicating hate speech jibe with the prevalence of hate speech on its platform?
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We just don't have a massive corpus of hate speech, because no one can agree on what hate speech is.
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YouTube said Jones violated its guidelines around hate speech and harassment; Facebook said he violated its community standards against hate speech and bullying; Apple said its decision was based on the company's refusal to tolerate hate speech.
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Such delegitimising slander is commonplace—it's the liberals' version of hate speech, spouted without apology in the fight against (ahem) hate speech.
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YouTube defended its actions in a late night blog post: Go deeper: YouTube coverage of hate speech hearing marred by hate speech
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Tech companies probably don't want to be held responsible for hate speech and are now taking a strong stance against hate speech.
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There's a lot of discussion about the boundaries of hate speech and how the platform decides on what, exactly, constitutes hate speech.
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When we think of hate speech and what sorts of things constitute hate speech, we automatically think of racism and LGBTQ issues.
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The strike came after Infowars posted two videos containing hate speech against Muslims and another with hate speech against transgender people, the Verge reported.
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Here's a tip: If a group of people start using something as ironic hate speech, it will eventually be used for unironic hate speech.
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Other countries have regulated social media companies on hate speech appearing on their platforms — regulations regarding hate speech went into effect in Germany in 2018.
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Reporting hate speech on Twitter comes with complications, especially for First Amendment defenders who know that one man's hate speech is another man's free speech.
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We have differences that should be acknowledged and sometimes even cherished, but we're calling things racism/hate speech that really are not racism/hate speech.
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A Georgia Tech study found that a 2015 ban of subreddits filled with hate speech successfully decreased the amount of hate speech on the platform overall.
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Limiting hate speech Following the March 15 attacks, politicians and Muslim New Zealanders have raised concerns about the level of hate speech allowed to circulate online.
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The irony of a hearing about the intersection of big tech and hate speech itself being flooded with hate speech was not lost on the press.
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For example it applies stricter hate speech rules to content moderation in a market like Germany, which passed a social media hate speech law last year.
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A vetted, million-data-point set of words and phrases classified as hate speech or not hate speech is a valuable commodity all on its own.
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With content moderation, the audit focused on harassment on Facebook; the under-enforcement of policies where hate speech is then left on the platform; and Facebook's over-enforcement of hate speech policies where users have content removed that actually condemned or spoke out against hate speech.
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Facebook also highlighted improvements in its use of artificial intelligence in removing hate speech, stating that it detects 80 percent of hate speech before users report it.
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There's going to be some things like ... In many countries, hate speech is illegal, and in many countries, it's not, but on Patreon, you can't use hate speech.
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France and Germany each have relatively strict hate speech laws, but accounts can also be blocked in those countries for running afoul of legislation unrelated to hate speech.
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Despite the lack of a hate speech clause, students and administrators will claim that hate speech is not protected and that those partaking in it can be punished.
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Twitter has taken steps to curb hate speech, but critics have specifically taken Dorsey to task for not acting more decisively to stamp out hate speech on his platform.
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But, because normal moderators and those dealing with hate speech are scored on the same basis, that also potentially increases hate speech mods' chances of getting a bad score.
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After reviewing Facebook's tools for taking down hate speech, the French government is introducing a draft bill to punish social media companies that fail to quickly take down hate speech.
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Naturally, some white supremacists wrote out some coded hate speech for people like Brett Favre to perform, and when they found out they had performed hate speech they got mad.
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It showed that banning a space rather than an individual can both reduce the amount of hate speech on a platform, and the amount of hate speech an individual participates in.
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While the broader issue of online hate speech has continued to be a hot button political issue, especially in Europe — with Germany passing a social media hate speech law in October.
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"I wish there was a clear way to say we don't want our work associated with hate speech, even accidental hate speech if that's what it was," Vanaman told BuzzFeed News.
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Germany at the start of the year began enforcing a new hate speech law that gives social networks just 24 hours to act on hate speech, fake news, and illegal material.
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Details: Hate speech: On Monday night, executives from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were all peppered with questions about their role in allowing hate speech and harassment to flourish on their platforms.
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Upon being alerted, Facebook removed the categories and issued a familiar-sounding strongly worded statement about how tough on hate speech the company is: We don't allow hate speech on Facebook.
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Is it too ... is their hate speech too much?
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" Sometimes reporting from multiple accounts, he'd hoped Facebook and Twitter would take action — the former labels hate speech as a terms of service violation; Twitter "prohibits the promotion of hate speech globally.
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" In response, Huffman argued that hate speech is "difficult to define," adding that enforcing a total ban on hate speech is "a nearly impossible precedent to uphold," and "impossible to enforce consistently.
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" In June, Facebook published a long blog post ruminating over the definition of hate speech, with the title "Hard questions: Who Should Decide What Is Hate Speech in an Online Global Community.
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While hate speech and online harassment have long plagued abortion providers—including over 42,500 incidents of hate speech in 2016 alone, according to the National Abortion Federation—actual hacking represents a serious escalation.
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So, first of all, with hate speech, the biggest problem is that according to numbers by the Council of Europe, only 15 percent of hate speech is even illegal in the first place.
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The post runs through the difficulties of defining hate speech across different countries, teaching AI to handle its nuances, and separating intentionally hateful posts from ones that describe hate speech to critique it.
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Facebook deletes hundreds of posts under German hate-speech law In the first half of the year, Facebook received 1,704 complaints under a new German law that bans online hate speech, Reuters reports.
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Raymond Serrato, a digital researcher and analyst who has tracked hate speech and bots related to Myanmar, found a huge uptick in hate speech on Facebook as the Rohingya crisis unfolded last October.
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Hysterical progressives have been brainwashed to believe that speech that they don't like is hate speech, that hate speech is tantamount to violence, and therefore violence to prevent such hateful speech is justifiable.
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Larger rival Facebook, which unlike Twitter explicitly prohibits hate speech, has taken down several pages from Facebook and Instagram in recent days that it said were associated with hate speech or hate organizations.
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Because determing if something is hate speech is linguistically nuanced.
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Hate speech and untruths appear alongside good intentions and truths.
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Germany has tougher hate speech laws than many other countries.
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BONUS: Student Republicans oppose possible UK ban for hate speech
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Sure. Or if there's hate speech or incentive to violence.
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Right now, Facebook isn't sure how it defines hate speech.
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In the United States, prosecuting hate speech is near impossible.
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Such feminists are called "transphobes" and accused of hate speech.
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Germany's fight against hate speech has reached Mark Zuckerberg himself.
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Hate speech is certainly of course a part of that.
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And on Facebook, hate speech can thrive and fuel genocide.
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There were hate groups and hate speech under Obama too!
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We permit hate speech, but we need not respect it.
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I wasn't the victim of hate speech or physical assault.
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Take a post that might get flagged as hate speech.
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"They say there is too much (hate speech)," he said.
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Comments alongside the video included hate speech directed towards Muslims.
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The Skimm isn't giving voice or amplification to hate speech.
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There have been attempts to clamp down on hate speech.
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Now we are looking at the result of hate speech.
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Laws against hate speech are unworkably subjective and widely abused.
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"More toxic #ThinBlueLine hate speech from NY's Finest," Vitale tweeted.
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Both Moore and Trump defend their hate speech as humor.
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Automated tools for identifying hate speech work in about 280.
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But things like where is the line on hate speech?
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Hate speech is certainly, of course, a part of that.
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They pledged to support the community and fight hate speech.
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This can help the targets of hate speech as well.
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It's not easy to solve for hate speech at scale.
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Those cover things like hate speech, harassment and misleading information.
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It would require Facebook to allow Constitutionally protected hate speech.
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"The ruling makes it clear this was not about prohibiting hate speech, it says they [Huppenthal and Horne] were acting with hate speech themselves," said Isabel Medina, a constitutional law professor at Loyola University.
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A previous claim from CEO Mark Zuckerberg that its "systems" prevent hate speech from being sent was roundly rejected by the Phandeeyar-backed group, which helped Facebook identify hate speech on Facebook and Messenger.
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The artist protested, re-uploaded her images, but this time with a disclaimer stating that her art was not hate speech, and in fact was commentary on hate speech, much like a political cartoon.
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Those are the people who believe that "hate speech" either isn't protected as free speech, or that it shouldn't be — because in the case of "hate speech," speech and violence are the same thing.
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On Monday, Ushahidi announced that it has mapped more than 300 incidents of "violence, hate speech, and harassment" across the US over the past ten days, including 148 reports of hate speech or threats.
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Larger rival Facebook Inc, which unlike Twitter explicitly prohibits hate speech, has taken down several pages from Facebook and Instagram in recent days that it said were associated with hate speech or hate organizations.
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GERMANY DROPS HATE-SPEECH INVESTIGATION OF FACEBOOK: The German government is no longer investigating whether Facebook managers' allegedly slow responses to some instances of hate speech constituted illegal incitement, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Twitter also moved to broaden its hate speech policies last year — responding to user criticism over the continued presence of hate speech purveyors on its platform despite having community guidelines that apparently forbid such conduct.
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On this election day, it's Americans peddling disinformation and hate speech.
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Twitter's crackdown on hate speech isn't turning out to be easy.
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It's also important to recognize that hate speech can be disguised.
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Conversely, there's the problem of flagging hate speech that's anything but.
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"Mexicans have dignity and we reject his hate speech," she added.
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Both Twitter and YouTube have user guidelines that ban hate speech.
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You are really standing up for hate speech and guess what?
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You know, hate speech is way too subjective of a term.
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Microsoft says it's joining the movement to curb online hate speech.
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It says it cannot share the "prevalence" of hate speech yet.
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Germany has begun to enforce its NetzDG law against hate speech.
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One, it gets at internal tensions around Facebook's hate speech policies.
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In Berkeley, California, the response to hate speech was more extreme.
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Several people have been prosecuted for engaging in such hate speech.
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Clothing with hate speech, profanity, pornography, and violent language or images.
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He attributed the difficulty in identifying hate speech to 'linguistic nuances.
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"I condemn hate speech of any kind," he wrote on Saturday.
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She also believes that kids are internalizing Trump's hate speech. 15.
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"Hate speech has no place online — or in society," Sandberg said.
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Was he suddenly in violation of new policy regarding hate speech?
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More to the point: "men are trash" is not hate speech.
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In the past, Moneta has opposed efforts to restrict hate speech.
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Online platforms still not clear enough about hate speech takedowns: EC
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Facebook and Twitter ban or suspend people who promote hate speech.
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Why is Twitter continuing to be complicit with Trump's hate speech?
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And you can quote hate speech to make fun of it.
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And they should, in fact, censor some of the hate speech.
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That slur is hate speech, no matter how you use it.
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The goal was to get around Google's algorithmic hate speech filtering.
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Hence, one assumes, the need for a specialized hate speech team.
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Indeed today more Americans support hate speech laws than oppose them.
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Facebook's convoluted policies around hate speech have long haunted the company.
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No, we must isolate the hate speech-ers and their apologists.
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That may be, but hate speech is not a victimless offense.
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So it's like you can't post certain kinds of hate speech.
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You are either combating hate speech, or you are accepting it.
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The parameters of hate speech are to a certain extent measurable.
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Flag burning and hate speech are both protected by the Constitution.
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When did standing up for basic human rights become hate speech?
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Is there a clear boundary between free speech and hate speech?
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On the other hand, hate speech falls into a different category.
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Higgins' post does not violate the site's standards on hate speech.
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Germany has led the way in demanding action on hate speech.
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Many readers had questions about how Reddit deals with hate speech.
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While we welcome debate, we cannot accept hate speech or violence.
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Both avow a commitment to combat hate speech, extremism and misinformation.
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How do you get rid of hate speech on social platforms?
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The charges were not for hate speech against a minority religion.
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Laws criminalising "hate speech" are inevitably vague and open to abuse.
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Is reading a just punishment for teenage hate speech and vandalism?
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Berlin's digital crackdown on hate speech, which took effect on Jan.
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Facebook and Twitter could face fines in Germany over hate speech.
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Greenwell expected scathing reviews and hate speech, but they never came.
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Hate speech is fluid, dependent on cultural context and social meaning.
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Hate speech and hate crimes against Muslim Americans have increased sharply.
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Anti-Jewish hate speech has also spilled out beyond the internet.
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It also took down over 500 million comments over hate speech.
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Charles Murray packages hate speech in a box of scholarly jargon.
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In reality, it's about keeping hate speech from quietly taking root.
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YouTube issues a new strike against Alex Jones' channel over hate speech and child endangerment I broke the news that Alex Jones' YouTube channel has a new strike against it after the company removed four videos from the site that violated its community standards: Two videos contained hate speech against Muslims, and a third contained hate speech against transgender people, sources said.
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According to data from Facebook, it caught about 103 percent of content that violated its hate speech policies in the first quarter of the year before users reported it, or about 4 million hate speech posts.
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Users who stayed decreased what study authors defined as hate speech on other subreddits by at least 80 percent, and when they migrated to other subreddits, those communities did not see significant increases in hate speech.
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This very public embrace of the farthest reaches of the country's right-wing fringe has had a normalizing effect on hate speech, said analysts, so much so that hate speech is used even by non-extremists.
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Seventy-three minutes before the Poway attack, someone identifying himself as John Earnest posted a link to a hate-speech-filled manifesto hyperlinked on 8chan, an anonymous message board that often features hate speech and extremist posts.
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"I wish there was a clear way to say we don't want our work associated with hate speech, even accidental hate speech if that's what it was," Vanaman, one of the developers behind Firewatch, told BuzzFeed News.
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"Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment", Mr Wheeler said.
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Germany is one of Facebook's toughest critics on hate speech and privacy.
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But hate speech was not a novel issue for Facebook in 2016.
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For example, our communities, Reddit doesn't have a formal hate speech policy.
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That and other assertions, the tribunal ruled, constituted "hate speech" and "discrimination".
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"Hey, hate speech and freedom of speech – two different things," Jones said.
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Many comments posted during the streams included hate speech directed at Muslims.
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Khan noted that Germany has instituted "very strict" legislation against hate speech.
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"We have really strict marketplace rules about hate speech," he told Mashable.
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After Charlottesville, tech companies have taken a stronger stance against hate speech.
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Facebook took down 4 million hate speech posts in the same quarter.
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In Germany the platforms have strict deadlines to take down hate speech.
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Advertisers quite understandably don't want their valuable brands next to hate speech.
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In Myanmar, hate speech amplified via Facebook incited violence against Rohingya Muslims.
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Geert Wilders, the populist Dutch politician, wants to eliminate hate-speech laws.
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We categorically condemn any sort of hate speech, regardless of the source.
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If they don't want hate speech, it's their right to exclude it.
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Go deeper: Big Tech grilled on hate speech, accountability at Code Conference
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My online world became a battleground filled with trolls, lies, hate speech.
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Or one form of hate speech thrives while another is specifically forbidden.
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Another promise was to provide regular training to staff around hate speech.
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In fact, Western governments do monitor hate speech and support for terrorism.
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"Apple does not tolerate hate speech," the company said in a statement.
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Spotify&aposs new hate speech policies should trouble artists and music fans.
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But Twitter was also criticized for a massive rise in hate speech.
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First, Facebook isn't being asked to prevent all instances of hate speech.
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They did it because they said that his content was hate speech.
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The hate speech thing is really where it gets I think hairy.
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Social media companies are getting faster at responding to hate speech online.
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Digital literacy programs help users navigate online harassment, hate speech, and misinformation.
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"Hate speech has no place on YouTube," a YouTube spokesperson told Gizmodo.
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Are we eliminating, or at least dramatically reducing, things like hate speech?
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When the news anchor race-baits, trolls translate it into hate-speech.
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"Just because we voted for Trump doesn't equal hate speech," Sluder said.
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But websites are free to ban whoever they like over hate speech.
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They also faced scrutiny in Europe, where hosting hate speech violates laws.
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"Steve Harvey, doubling down in defense of hate speech," replied one user.
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Recently, the law has been used to battle hate speech against migrants.
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I despise racist and immigrant-baiting hate speech as much as anyone.
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As things stand, Facebook's self-reported hate speech performance metrics are meaningless.
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Silence in the face of hate speech is no longer an option.
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Facebook said the post went against their 'community standards on hate speech.
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" He added, "Hate speech is certainly, of course, a part of that.
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He also has been indicted by federal prosecutors on hate speech charges.
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Apple had said the podcasts violated the company's rules against hate speech.
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Bolsonaro hate speech against gays and blacks suggest other potential targets, although
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Jeong's harassers subjected her to racist, misogynist hate speech; they punched down.
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Can you imagine why someone might be swayed by hate speech rhetoric?
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If we can single out those using hate speech, so can Twitter.
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There are two key policies at play here: harassment and hate speech.
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"Hate speech and violent extremism have no place on YouTube," Walden said.
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That makes sense, as "hate speech" is much more subjective than nudity.
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It also creates an environment conducive to viral misinformation and hate speech.
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In January the UK Parliament debated banning Donald Trump for hate speech.
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We recently focused on Myanmar to understand better how hate speech spreads.
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Policing hate speech is something nearly every online communication platform struggles with.
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There's much more to hate speech than just a couple ugly words.
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Why wasn't the government adequately monitoring these groups and their hate speech?
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It was a week of reckoning for YouTube's policies against hate speech.
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Anti-Rohingya hate speech can also be found on Twitter and YouTube.
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He's been arrested at least 38 times under French hate speech laws.
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" YouTube accused Mr. Jones of violating policies against "hate speech and harassment.
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"We kind of band together on things like hate speech," Gabennesch said.
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The instructions for moderating hate speech alone run more than 200 pages.
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Identifying hate speech can be a complex and tricky process, Quinn said.
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That&aposs because languages, including hate speech, are constantly changing, Quinn said.
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That meant blatant hate speech and trolling couldn't spread through the app.
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Hate speech and conspiracy theories are staples of some far-right websites.
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Google is trying to stop ads from appearing next to hate speech.
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First, they can fill the public information vacuum around hate speech policy.
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Toxic hate speech and discriminatory language dominate many of these online forums.
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In 2016, an Indian counterterrorism agency accused Naik of promoting hate speech.
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"Our policies provide protection from hate speech," Mr. Allan said last month.
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Would it be a post that spread hate speech or promoted violence?
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He has been charged with violating the country's online hate speech laws.
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"The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic," Stamos said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo has directed state agencies to investigate the hate speech.
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Reporting someone for hate speech and content is now easier than ever.
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He faces trial before the Brazil's Supreme Court for alleged hate speech.
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"Hate speech is certainly of course a part of that," Darusman said.
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But 73 minutes before the Poway attack, someone identifying themselves as John Earnest posted a link to a hate-speech-filled open letter hyperlinked on 8chan, an anonymous message board that often features hate speech and extremist posts.
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Other similar fundraising services, including Patreon and PayPal, do have terms of service prohibiting hate speech and have been known to terminate accounts deemed to be promoting hate speech — pushing neo-Nazis to alternative platforms such as Hatreon.
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Victoire Rio, a digital rights researcher in Myanmar, had long noticed that even when posts including hate speech were reported, Facebook's reaction was not fast enough, particularly given how quickly violence can follow the dissemination of hate speech.
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The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people Important story from Shirin Ghaffary on new research: Two new studies show that AI trained to identify hate speech may actually end up amplifying racial bias.
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft aren't responding to cases of online hate speech fast enough, according to the European Commission, which demands the technology companies review reports of hate speech less than 24 hours after they were first reported.
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UK parliamentarians investigating extremism and hate speech on social platforms via a committee enquiry also urged the government to impose fines for takedown failures last May, accusing tech giants of taking a laissez-faire approach to moderating hate speech.
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"HATE speech", activists on college campuses like to say, "is not free speech".
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Though critics argue this is a disproportionate response to tackling hate speech online.
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No one is arguing whether Facebook can ban hate speech from its platforms.
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McInnes and his group's account were suspended from Twitter recently over hate speech.
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You know, this is a comment someone derived as hate speech and sexist.
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As of this year, the Rules now reflect a ban on hate speech.
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Hate speech spreads, and Facebook has been utterly terrible at countering it here.
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Like hate speech and misinformation meant to sway elections and attack minority groups.
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And while Disqus has a hate speech policy, they aren't really enforcing it.
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Hate speech, ubiquitous on the radio and social media, is fanning the flames.
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But can hate speech rules on a platform like Facebook ever look good?
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Google and YouTube both have numerous policies regarding harassment, bullying, and hate speech.
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But the mechanics that enable harassment and hate speech long predate their exit.
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Reports of discrimination and hate speech have risen since the 2016 presidential election.
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To those with brown skin -- Latinos and Muslims -- it sounded like hate speech.
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But it's not just hate speech that has caused problems for YouTube recently.
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While we respect our fans' diverse opinions, we do not condone hate speech.
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Patreon has seen some right-wing political pundits raise money through hate speech.
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While law enforcement can prosecute threats and stalking, other hate speech isn't illegal.
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That's up from only 23% of hate speech at the end of 2017.
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A lot of that hate speech comes from people in the alt-right.
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So it's pretty clear: Facebook considers the phrase "men are trash" hate speech.
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Facebook has said it's working on fighting both fake news and hate speech.
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On the other hand, intolerant speech (hate speech, racism, xenophobia) threatens our democracy.
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We work closely with partners to fight hate speech and foster counter speech.
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Apple, Facebook and YouTube all cited hate speech as justification for banning Jones.
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Hate speech and misinformation were another thorny topic that came up several times.
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Eventually, feeding into one another, users arrive at hate speech on their own.
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Instead, they were expanding the boundaries of hate speech in an unhealthy way.
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The violence, hate speech, and mutilation of corpses in Libya is completely unacceptable.
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"Just because we voted for Trump doesn't equal hate speech," Debbie Sluder said.
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The instructions for moderating hate speech alone run to more than 200 pages.
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Hate speech is even tougher: Facebook finds just 33 percent before users do.
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In truth hate speech suppresses the speech of those it targets with harassment.
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The site's affiliation with the alt-right and hate speech is nothing new.
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Reddit has had a longstanding struggle dealing with hate speech and controversial communities.
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The committee gave much consideration to concerns about "hate speech" and "micro-aggressions".
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From terrorist content and hate speech, to election interference, child exploitation, bullying, abuse.
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After all, Hydra is associated with terror and hate speech in the comics.
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The rules determining what hate speech actually is are often vague at best.
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Jewish lobbyists, frequently the target of hate speech, welcomed the code of conduct.
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"We are united against hate speech that sees immigrants as invaders," he said.
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Popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe also took a stand against hate speech following Charlottesville.
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"Yee had engaged in hate speech against Christians and Muslims," the ministry said.
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Google has been struggling to keep advertisers away from hate speech for years.
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Simply put, hate speech laws ban certain types of speech that offend others.
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The inherent vagueness of hate speech laws is reason enough to oppose them.
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How can hate speech be discerned when a place is submerged in hate?
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We cannot allow this hate speech to stop common sense gun violence prevention.
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Student Opinion Lawmakers in South Africa want to make hate speech a crime.
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Does The Times reprint hate speech when it arises during a political campaign?
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"Hate speech is more and more accepted by this government," Suchanow told me.
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Fact-checking tools for teens and tweens Conversation starters What is hate speech?
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Do you feel safe calling out the person or people using hate speech?
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This defense of seeming hate speech was from the president of Columbia University.
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Racism is rising and a lot of us are victims of hate speech.
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There seems to be no conflation of hate speech and free speech now.
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Protestors march outside a rally against hate speech and hate crimes this September.
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This also includes the poop emoji, which can qualify as hate speech, sometimes.
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Classic liberalism suggests that attempting to distinguish between hate speech "punching up," i.e.
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But the response to hate speech can't be to prohibit and punish it.
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Over 300 colleges and universities adopted hate speech codes in the early 1990s.
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For the message of hate speech from Salvini in the Italian public debate.
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Every effort by the government to regulate hate speech has been declared unconstitutional.
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Facebook said its efforts to fight hate speech were a work in progress.
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Twitter has allowed hate speech and online harassment to proliferate under its watch.
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Most recently, this includes our hate speech policy and our upcoming harassment policy.
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Unfortunately, there is no simple solution for problems like hate speech and misinformation.
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Muslims have been subject to racial slurs and hate speech since the Sept.
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In addition, some scholars have recently argued for legal restrictions on hate speech.
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Hate speech and incitement to violence on Facebook helped drive this genocidal campaign.
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In response, Democratic leaders passed a resolution condemning hate speech in all forms.
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In 2016, the ad tech company AppNexus took a stand against hate speech.
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"FaZe Clan will not tolerate any form of hate speech," the statement read.
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Facebook has been widely criticized for playing a role in spreading hate speech.
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Hate speech and other objectionable content can't be dealt with simply through technology.
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Student Opinion Have you seen an increase in hate speech where you live?
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The suspect's anti-Semitism fueled other hate speech that he shared on Gab.
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It can even help remove content like hate speech from the social network.
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"Hate speech has no place on Facebook and in our community," he said.
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Freedom of speech and hate speech or offensive conduct, where is the line?
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The regulations enforce what kind of content appears on social media platforms to comply with Germany's hate speech regulations and require sites to remove hate speech within 24 hours of a complaint or face fines of up to 50 million euros.
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Last month, the European Council approved a set of proposals that will require such companies to block videos containing hate speech and extremist recruiting efforts, while Germany is considering even stiffer penalties for companies that fail to remove hate speech.
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In 2016 Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft signed up to a regional Code of Conduct on illegal hate speech, committing to review the majority of reported hate speech within 24 hours and — for valid reports — remove posts within that timeframe too.
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But those numbers are far lower for bullying, where Facebook only caught 1.13% of the 2.6 million instances of harassment reported; and hate speech, where the company internally flagged 65.4% of the 4.0 million moments of hate speech users reported.
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According to the researchers, instead of "spreading the infection" of hate speech to the rest of Reddit, users who remained active typically took their shitty opinions to groups where hate speech was already prevalent, like r/The_Donald and r/BlackCrimeMatters.
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Facebook claims its automated tools for detecting hate speech have got better, saying that in Q1 this year it increased the proactive detection rate for hate speech to 65.4% — up from 58.8% in Q4 2017 and 38% in Q2 2017.
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Germany got Google, Facebook and Twitter to agree to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours last year and even launched an investigation into the European head of Facebook over its alleged failure to remove racist hate speech.
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The New York Times reported that Facebook had sought to deflect blame for its role in empowering far right hate speech by, in fact, employing a right-wing media company to spread a soft, sanitized version of that same hate speech.
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Germany took concrete action on social media hate speech in June, passing a law that would impose fines of up to $85033 million on websites that do not remove reported hate speech, including racist speech and Nazi symbols, within 24 hours.
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Facebook also agreed to work with the government, local charities and other companies to fight online hate speech, and recently started a billboard and television campaign in Germany to answer local fears over how it deals with hate speech and privacy.
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The company has shown ads for major brands next to videos depicting hate speech.
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That conflict of interest is a valid concern when it comes to hate speech.
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The presence of hate speech is a social problem, not just a technological one.
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It was updated to clarify that hate speech is not, on its own, illegal.
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Lawson insists that taking a stand against hate speech is not a political decision.
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But the site as a whole does not have a policy on hate speech.
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Well, apparently Twitter does have a line when it comes to unhinged hate speech.
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Hate speech is a consistent problem across social media platforms, from Twitter to Instagram.
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The act of hate speech that has affected our map users has been resolved.
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By playing coy with hate speech, PewDiePie is emboldening actual Nazis, who are celebrating.
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Question: According to your policies "men are trash" is considered tier-one hate speech.
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Since the earliest days of the internet, the ADL has tracked hate speech online.
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Bullying, hate speech, and pornography are much easier to identify than false news stories.
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Bullying and hate speech typically involve a limited, if ever-evolving, set of words.
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Twitter will also monitor for hate speech in usernames, display names, and profile bios.
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It correctly notes that Facebook and Twitter also contain hate speech and violent threats.
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YouTube officials say the company removes videos that contain hate speech or incite violence.
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Reported instances of hate speech have risen sharply since the surprise ruling on Sept.
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In practice, the results look more like a parody of anti-hate speech rules.
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Maas has also called for Europe-wide regulations on hate speech and fake news.
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How effectively can its machine-learning systems understand potential hate speech in that language?
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The legislation would further toughen the country's strict 2018 law against online hate speech.
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Breitbart will have to contend with strict laws governing hate speech and anti-Semitism.
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The hate speech directed against Schiappa — who is not Jewish — frequently combines the two.
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Our systems for detecting things like hate speech will be a little bit better.
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But he also said that extremists are now leveraging the web for hate speech.
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Various bad actors race to fill social platforms with misinformation and outright hate speech.
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More than ever before, journalists are finding vast swaths of hate speech on Instagram.
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We should now expect hate speech to proliferate on Instagram just as everywhere else.
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Read more in our lead note on German hate speech in this week's issue
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Today Facebook, along with Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agreed to new hate speech rules.
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Facebook's Own Training Materials Fell for Fake News How difficult is hate-speech moderation?
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Misinformation and hate speech spread quickly on their platforms, amassing audience in the millions.
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They said he had violated rules against hate speech, false information or conspiracy theories.
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It's been a defensive bulwark against affirmative action, hate speech, and same sex marriage.
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Hate speech, terrorist content, nudity, anything that makes people feel unsafe in the community.
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There should be zero tolerance for hate speech, harassment, and discrimination on the platform.
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"We're launching a pilot program where some reviewers specialize in hate speech," Osofsky said.
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Instead, humans are awful, hate speech and cyberbullying is unleashed, and bad things happen.
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They barred depictions of pornography, criminal acts, gratuitous violence, threats, spam, and hate speech.
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" Lea says Broner's language should be considered "hate speech and should be a crime.
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Would you consider the last thing you saw on Facebook to be hate speech?
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Security experts are working to determine the exact origin of this malicious hate speech.
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Please condemn any acts of violence, which result directly from hate speech & hate groups.
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Instagram's parent company Facebook recently launched an AI tool aimed at curbing hate speech.
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Avaaz found that at least 238% of the posts and comments constituted hate speech.
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Every hate-speech code that has been challenged in court has been found unconstitutional.
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The company's policies do not detail its approach to hate groups and hate speech.
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Hate speech by white supremacists is a byproduct of these inflammatory and divisive times.
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Hate speech from Nazi and white supremacist groups is not unique to Google Plus.
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Klein was also already unhappy with the WSJ's work concerning hate speech on YouTube.
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No. No-platforming is a venerable strategy for stemming the spread of hate speech.
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The company has updated its hate speech policies and currently employs 10,000 human moderators.
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This is not the first election where we have seen hate speech emerge online.
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To say most social platforms have botched hate speech moderation would be an understatement.
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What one person might describe as hate speech, another might describe as free speech.
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And of course, like any virtual platform, the app is susceptible to hate speech.
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Many women and minorities find themselves victims of misogyny, hate speech, and online attacks.
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It was hate speech, sanctioned by the biggest, most tremendous idiot of them all.
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This story addresses hate speech and contains offensive language that may upset some readers.
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Erwin: The law under the First Amendment is clear: Hate speech is protected speech.
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Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another.
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That's particularly problematic, she says, because YouTube's hate speech problem isn't necessarily about quantity.
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Over 25 years ago, more than 350 colleges and universities adopted hate speech codes.
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It could introduce a formal option to report caste-related abuse and hate speech.
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But A.I. doesn't always detect some material, most notably hate speech and false news.
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But how would stronger limits on hate speech affect progressive protests against white supremacy?
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" It added that "hate speech and discriminatory advertising have no place on our platform.
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Apple, Facebook and Google's YouTube mostly barred Mr. Jones last month, for hate speech.
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But revulsion toward violence and hate speech has kept such groups on the margins.
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These is no place for such hate speech or violence in any democratic society.
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There's also the situation where someone is threatening or discussing violence or hate speech.
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Police in Cologne are reportedly investigating von Storch for hate speech after the tweet.
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Britain and Germany are among nations that have criminalized hate speech in various forms.
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The new rules prompted Facebook to delete thousands of posts deemed as hate speech.
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The U.S. should protect freedom of speech but "not hate speech," Marc Morial said.
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Gun and hate speech laws were toughened in October after the failed synagogue attack.
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In 2017, hate speech on Facebook contributed to ethnic cleansing against Myanmar's Rohingya minority.
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Amrit Ahuja, a company representative, says Facebook's approach to hate speech "has evolved" globally.
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"Refugee" became a group protected from the broad hate speech rules only in 2015.
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Paul Spoonley, a sociologist who specializes in the far right and hate speech, agreed.
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They say the company isn't doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.
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The social media giant doesn't make public its data on hate speech in Myanmar.
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We have strong policies against hate speech and threats, and we enforce them aggressively.
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Google said the site was in violation of the app store's hate-speech policy.
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This has allowed hate speech and spam bots alike to flourish on the platform.
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" Hate speech and violent political threats, Omar said, can only be defeated "with compassion.
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Teaching kids media smarts during breaking news De-fang hate speech and fear-mongering.
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Since the election, white supremacists and perpetuators of hate speech appear to be emboldened.
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Communications Minister Rudiantara said the government is working to counter the online "hate speech".
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How should platforms be held responsible for misinformation or hate speech on their sites?
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Each company cited violations of their respective hate speech policies and other community guidelines.
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One party's crackdown on fake news and hate speech is the other's political censorship.
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Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible.
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Is there more hate speech on YouTube, or are more people talking about it?
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While it freely admits the dance between discouraging hate speech and censorship is difficult, critics continue to insist its emphasis on removing only the most extreme content is a laissez-faire approach that has allowed hate speech to proliferate on the site.
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The new European Union "code of conduct on illegal online hate speech" states that Facebook Inc, Google's YouTube , Twitter Inc and Microsoft will review reports of hate speech in less than 24 hours and remove or disable access to the content if necessary.
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The new European Union "code of conduct on illegal online hate speech" states that Facebook Inc, Google's YouTube, Twitter Inc and Microsoft will review reports of hate speech in less than 24 hours and remove or disable access to the content if necessary.
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When it comes to hateful and bigoted content, Facebook is piloting a program that would assign some content moderators to hate speech only, meaning they could focus more attention and get more training on the issue of what defines "hate speech" specifically.
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The social network explained the complexity in moderating hate speech in a recent blog post, as part of its "hard questions" series, but it faced renewed criticism this week after a ProPublica investigationdetailed Facebook's confusing internal systems that underpin its hate speech policy.
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Nilesh Christopher reports on TikTok hate speech's hate speech problem, and links it to real-world violence: Videos found on TikTok include casteist-hate speech posted by users identifying themselves from high castes while celebrating and singing the praises of their communities.
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But also, these companies have already been working with the EU toward reducing hate speech.
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The creators aim to engage their communities on topics like hate speech, xenophobia and extremism.
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Portland Mayor Ed Murray condemned both racism and hate speech the day before the rally.
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Some state officials had reportedly joined in the hate speech, the statement from Zeid said.
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"I think the Democrats are splitting hairs when they talk about hate speech," he says.
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And the leftwing media covering for their own hate speech, that&aposs been further exposed.
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Liberals complain the platforms are enabling hate speech; conservatives say they are suppressing free speech.
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Facebook has been facing increasing pressure about its response to hate speech complaints in Europe.
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Twitter's number one goal in 2017 was curbing abuse and cracking down on hate speech.
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The violence was linked to Facebook's mishandling of misinformation and hate speech in the regions.
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As Apple CEO, Cook has taken action to combat hate speech on the company's platforms.
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Wasserman says in this case, the line between free speech and hate speech is murky.
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Defining "hate speech" online is far from simple—and human moderators are on the frontlines.
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This hate speech may be directed at writers, subjects or other members of the community.
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The change was made so that hate speech against refugees could be reviewed and deleted.
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"I only silence or suspend [people using hate speech] or things like that," they said.
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How should you fight back against people spewing hate speech in your Facebook News Feed?
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Companies like Facebook and Twitter are updating their policies to more explicitly ban hate speech.
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Reuters reports that Facebook has known about hate speech problems against the Rohingya since 2013.
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He called on social media networks to be more proactive in shutting down hate speech.
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The social network has been plagued by harassment, hate speech, and trolling for a decade.
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Meanwhile: Twitter critics noted just how much hate speech has remained up on the site.
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The survey comes amid reports that online hate speech and harassment are on the rise.
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She became extremely popular on 4chan after the bot radicalized and started spewing hate speech.
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" Tech's growing comfort with cracking down on hate speech, Torba said, is a "slippery slope.
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"Hate speech and content that promotes violence have no place on YouTube," the spokesperson said.
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I think people are sick and tired of hate speech running rampant on the Internet.
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But despite Mr Maas's efforts, hate speech has continued to proliferate on German social media.
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The memory of Nazi rule means Germany takes an unusually tough stance on hate speech.
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Users reported 62 percent of hate speech posts before Facebook took action on them. Spam.
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Over the last year, German police have started cracking down on online hate speech violations.
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Facebook is neither bound by the First Amendment nor legally required to police hate speech.
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Germany is also threatening stiff fines against social media companies that don't delete hate speech.
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One step, Sandberg says, is to have some content reviewers focus just on hate speech.
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" Mapbox later responded with a statement calling the change "disgusting" and a "hate-speech attack.
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Under the German law, hate speech, encouraging violence, and spreading propaganda is against the law.
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In most cases, Jones was banned for hate speech against minorities or for inciting violence.
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The idea that you get a push notification of their hate speech is worse still.
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Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have struggled to police hate speech on their networks for years.
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But of course, in 2016, Google began a push to eliminate hate speech from results.
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He also said the posts reported appear to violate Facebook's Community Standards on hate speech.
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BuzzFeed News' analysis shows how widespread the problem of hate speech is on Facebook's platform.
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Fabrice Houdart: We are witnessing a proliferation of hate speech and human-rights abuses globally.
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In the end it was hate speech, not misinformation, that got Jones booted from Facebook.
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Many teachers reported increased hate speech, the taunting of minority students and discrimination against Muslims.
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Following the Holocaust, Germany passed laws cracking down on hate speech and praise of Nazism.
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Twitter is a private company, they can establish rules of conduct that combat hate speech.
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They aimed to create a safer and more inclusive site whose rules banned hate speech.
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Facebook is not the only service facing a battle to tackle misinformation and hate speech.
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The reason, according to a company spokesperson, is Breitbart's violation of AppNexus' hate speech rules.
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These white supremacists have not only weaponized free speech, but also have normalized hate speech.
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This idea has potential, especially considering the state of AI for identifying hate speech today.
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Summon responsible leadership Hate speech can spread like wildfire so long as leaders do nothing.
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Hate speech is entirely different," adding, "We're going to look at what remedies we have.
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So you will have content like hate speech and discriminatory posts slip through the system.
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This story addresses hate speech and contains offensive language that may be disturbing to readers.
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A recent expansion of hate-speech rules for AdSense also applies at the page level.
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Most fanfic services don't allow porn, hate speech, or revealing personal information about living people.
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Grassroots movements are promoting interfaith reconciliation and opposing hate speech that attempts to incite violence.
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Please condemn any acts of violence, which result directly from hate speech and hate groups.
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To be fair to Twitter, it has made changes designed to weed out hate speech.
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They argue that this is a natural extension of the Western concept of "hate speech".
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Eight of the 11 are accused of treason and three of spreading hate speech online.
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We're subjected every day to forms of hate speech, from the White House on down.
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Israel's Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism held a working group on hate speech legislation.
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"We are against hate speech and we take a firm stand here," the company said.
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Zuckerberg has faced intense criticism over his platform's handling of hate speech and conspiracy theories.
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German authorities reportedly fined Facebook for $85033 million for underreporting complaints of illegal hate speech.
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The Democratic Party and voices on the left need to dial back their hate speech.
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Hate speech has spread everywhere [...] Every bit of what he's done has helped fuel this.
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And the solution isn't quite as simple as a blanket ban on obvious hate speech.
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YouTube yanked TheAlexJonesChannel, saying it violated the website's terms of service that prohibits hate speech.
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One document trains content reviewers on how to apply the company's global hate speech algorithm.
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"We're committed to removing hate speech any time we become aware of it," Allen wrote.
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Taxpayer money for the "no" campaign would allow bigots to spread hate speech, he said.
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They argued that hate speech and coordinated hate against specific groups forms its own censorship.
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The court ruled in 225 that the center had indulged in hate speech, he said.
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"There's no room for that kind of hate speech that that man uses," Bryant said.
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"Facebook rejects not just hate speech, but all hateful ideologies," Potts said in the hearing.
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Milo says 'SNL' star Leslie Jones accused the publisher of helping him spread hate speech.
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Any time she's mentioned banning hate speech, like many European countries do, she's been trolled.
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She also said people could potentially be charged with hate speech for harassing others online.
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The company's rules help to show how it distinguishes between free speech and hate speech.
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Facebook said Thursday that it has clear rules against hate speech and incitement to violence.
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That makes it likelier that questionable content, including hate speech, will remain on its platform.
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But every court to consider such a hate speech code declared it to be unconstitutional.
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Others say the tech sites are biased and that hate speech is an ambiguous term.
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Wu believes Google is not strict enough about hate speech in YouTube's videos and comments.
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Germany imposed rigorous legal restrictions last year mandating that the networks rapidly remove hate speech.
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Nobody wants Facebook to tinker with legitimate news and opinion — again, except for hate speech.
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Other online communities have had success with a broad-based approach to moderating hate speech.
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What's considered hate speech by one group of people is considered free speech by another.
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While arguably these videos would be considered hate speech, much seems to be left online.
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Fake news is as old as news, and hate speech is as old as speech.
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It would be easy to train an AI writer to mimic hate speech, for example.
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France's approach to hate speech has contrasted sharply with Germany, Europe's leading advocate of privacy.
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The Google-owned company also said it would crack down on videos considered hate speech.
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Facebook and Twitter have developed tools to allow users to report hate speech and harassment.
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There are no government bodies to collect data on hate speech or on actual attacks.
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In response to this criticism, YouTube has sought to take more action against hate speech.
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Google has also provided financing to nonprofit organizations aimed at countering such hate speech online.
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That could all go wrong, of course, if some politician butts in with hate speech.
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She gave a presentation on what constituted hate speech to the Zhihu content-monitoring team.
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Tech companies said they removed Jones for violating policies related to hate speech and harassment.
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Those who advocate for cracking down on "fake news" and "hate speech" reject this view.
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As critics have pointed out, decentralization doesn't automatically solve problems like hate speech and harassment.
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If there's one lesson from Pittsburgh, it's this: in all societies, hate speech breeds violence.
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"We did a seminar during seventh period about hate speech," she said, shaking her head.
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Last year, the company removed accounts associated with the Myanmar military for spreading hate speech.
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He said the government was planning to tighten legislation regarding extremist movements and hate speech.
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In the past, Google's workforce has publicly critiqued how YouTube handled hate speech and harassment.
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Veprek disputed the idea that leaders had a "duty" to condemn hate speech and incitement.
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Taboola's policy prohibits working with sites that have "politically religious agendas" or use hate speech.
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"It can be confusing learning the hate speech policy," a third moderation source told Motherboard.
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Doegen pointed to hate speech specifically as an example where more coaching is often necessary.
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Whether we're facing hate speech or nuclear war, there's apparently nothing that can't be memed.
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YouTube responded to Maza's complaints just hours before revealing a policy change regarding hate speech.
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Absolutely. If they are amplifying hate speech, if they're amplifying conflict, if they're amplifying lies.
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Rafia Zakaria: It's an important step in recognizing hate speech as a form of terrorism The stripping of InfoWars from Facebook, Apple and other platforms is an important step in the recognition of nativist, nationalist and white supremacist hate speech as a form of terrorism.
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The social network explained the complexity in moderating hate speech in a recent blog post, as part of its "hard questions" series, but it faced renewed criticism this week after a ProPublica investigation detailed Facebook's confusing internal systems that underpin its hate speech policy.
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While today's technology does not allow Facebook to block hate speech as expeditiously as it should, the tech giant can do more to release the burden of reporting hate speech from its users and devote more personnel resources to dousing hate groups and hateful content.
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On the regulatory side, Germany began enforcing a hate speech law, requiring social media sites remove hate speech within 24 hours or face fines of up to tens of millions of dollars — but thus far no company has faced major fines from the law.
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Recent steps by governments and tech companies show important promise in stemming the digital spread of violent extremism, but we have more work to do to curb hate speech online and to make sure discussions of violence and racism aren't also censored as hate speech.
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As Facebook faces intense scrutiny from high-ranking German officials over how the platform handles hate speech, a German newspaper has shared what it's reporting to be internal documents that show a detailed yet confusing blueprint for how Facebook handles hate speech on its site.
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On the one hand, this is a safeguard that protects Twitter from having to arbitrate a lot of pointless disputes over what constitutes "hate speech"; after all, plenty of people feel that pushback against white male culture is hate speech, a form of racism.
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When Spoonley chaired a group of government departments and non-governmental organizations looking into hate speech late last year, he found that New Zealand has a "permissive" environment towards hate speech, with a large volume of Islamophobic speech on New Zealand websites, by New Zealanders.
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"I don't think Facebook have even identified the pages or accounts or groups which are vectors of this misinformation and hate speech," Ray Serrato, a digital researcher and analyst who tracked hate speech posted to the Facebook page of the hardline nationalist MaBa Tha group.
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They then developed a metric to quantify the level of hate speech in each of them.
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Over the past year, Twitter has come under fire for its lackluster responses to hate speech.
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A debate was sparked about whether it constituted hate speech and should be reported as such.
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But as for more sophisticated hate speech filters, he said, we're going to have to wait.
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What happens when one country's idea of acceptable speech clashes with another's idea of hate speech?
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In the US, the answer is more speech—protecting hate speech and contentions that it's wrong.
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Reddit has often been rebuked for its lax policy in regards to racism and hate speech.
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The problem with it, critics claim, is that it is imprecise about what constitutes hate speech.
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We have lots of rules around the platform, but we tolerate ... About hate speech and stuff.
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All controversial political speech soon becomes suspect when "hate speech" is punished -- and then democracy suffocates.
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When this right is extended to fake news, defamation or hate speech, society pays a price.
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We have clear rules against hate speech and work hard to keep it off our platform.
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The hope is that this feature will drastically decrease hate speech for those who want it.
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There are two categories that are very sensitive politically, and they are hate speech and misinformation.
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Pro-Trump content and content about immigration laws have been tagged as hate speech, he says.
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Though such slogans violate German laws against hate speech, the instigators were not removed by organizers.
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Twitter is cracking down on hate speech and not just by looking at its own site.
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Still, reports of rising xenophobia and hate speech on social platforms will always make me nervous.
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The country will increase background checks for gun buyers and requirements for reporting online hate speech.
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In the first quarter of 2018, Facebook says it removed 2.5 million pieces of hate speech.
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YouTube pointed Motherboard to its existing policies around calls for violence, hate speech, threats, and harassment.
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Verifying white supremacists reinforces the increasing belief that your site is a platform for hate speech.
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A ProPublica report from June highlighted how confusing and rather cringeworthy Facebook's hate speech guidelines were.
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Can a cryptocurrency push back against the tide of hate speech, 'fake news' and divisive politics?
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Still, YouTube has been slow to adopt policies that keep its users safe from hate speech.
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The 8chan post linked to a hate speech-laden manifesto signed with the name John Earnest.
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What we are doing is putting a bright hot spotlight on the impact of hate speech.
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Apple cited hate speech violations for why it removed Jones' podcasts and later the Infowars app.
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As the authors note, the posts driving the violence largely do not qualify as hate speech.
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Government officials have said Facebook's action against those who spread hate speech had been too slow.
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As a result, society is losing the battle against bullying, predators, hate speech, misinformation and scammers.
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In fact, its name has become synonymous with hate speech, racism, sexism and other terrible things.
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They're the ones that inspect user posts to decide what does and doesn't constitute hate speech.
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"The things he posted and portrayed give license to supremacism by normalizing hate speech," Allieri said.
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What separates hate speech from offensive ideas, or misinformation from coordinated disinformation intended to incite violence?
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Edward Snowden thinks the answer to hate speech is to drown it out with other voices.
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Facebook's report indicates that the amount of hate speech being acted on has been growing steadily.
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The president urged Indonesians not to use the internet to spread fake news and hate speech.
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"We have long standing policies against child endangerment and hate speech," YouTube wrote at the time.
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Hate speech, election meddling, PewDiePie—and we still can't get Twitter to let us edit posts.
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This active subreddit is well-known for its violent rhetoric, hate speech, and white supremacist content.
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In fact, much anti-Semitic hate speech is constitutionally protected, just like racist and sexist speech.
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How do you determine when content is inappropriate or falls under the category of hate speech?
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In the face of hate speech, the call for more speech is not merely an option.
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The Commission's mid-term review also looked at the issue of hate speech on social media.
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Hours earlier, The Guardian announced its own withdrawal after finding its ads on hate-speech sites.
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Last year, French president Francois Hollande wanted to make those companies "accomplices" in hate speech crimes.
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Milo was given $250,000 precisely because he has a track record of attention-grabbing hate speech.
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Facebook said it had not violated German law and was working on fighting hate speech online.
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Now, four tech companies are making a formal pledge at the European level against hate speech.
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There is no place for content encouraging violence, direct threats, terrorism or hate speech on Facebook.
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Facebook beware — Germany is finally getting serious on fighting hate speech, and that has wider consequences.
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Why am I determined to find a way to disrupt hate speech without banning it outright?
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However it also says it only removed 4 million pieces of hate speech globally in Q1.
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While the government continuously tries to combat hate speech, more must still be done, she added.
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This in turn helped funnel hate speech, amplify rumors, and pull others into heated discussion threads.
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Germany requires social media companies to remove illegal hate speech within 24 hours or face fines.
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Facebook said publishers had to meet other criteria such as its community standards against hate speech.
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Facebook shut down four of Jones's pages for "repeatedly" violating rules against hate speech and bullying.
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The New York Times: Repercussions of social media companies' inability to handle disinformation and hate speech.
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" Behar asked before later adding, "Why can't he be sued by the ACLU for hate speech?
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First, the promotion of hate speech and other violent extremism directly impacts our liberties and security.
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YouTube has been slammed for its conservative reaction to incidents of hate speech on the platform.
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Look up the definition of hate speech and talk about whether your kids have encountered it.
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Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have also grappled with the issue of hate speech.
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Hate speech leads to what happened in my sanctuary, where seven of my congregants were slaughtered.
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It shouldn't take tragedies to get tech companies to address hate speech and online harassment proactively.
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Only 38 percent of the hate speech Facebook removed in Q1 was first identified by algorithms.
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"… Hate speech and violent extremism have no place on YouTube," YouTube's Walden said during the hearing.
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There's a discussion worth having about how hate speech should be removed from major internet platforms.
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The film's most recent topics are polluted with hate speech, drowning out the possibility for discussion.
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Njalla, likewise, has prohibitions against "illegal activities" but nothing pertaining to hate speech, harassment, abuse, etc.
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And it's not just customers; restaurateurs themselves are not immune to joining in the hate speech.
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White supremacy and hate speech have always been a problem on YouTube and other social media.
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Google wouldn't comment on any action against individual sites, but said it takes hate speech seriously.
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After viewers complained about the hateful content of the video, police arrested Meechan for hate speech.
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Infowars returns to YouTube — brieflyIn June, YouTube updated its moderation policies to specifically address hate speech.
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Erwin: I think it's so important for campus officials to respond to and condemn hate speech.
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Twitter promised new rules against sexual trolling and hate speech after a related, daylong #WomenBoycottTwitter protest.
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They are, unfortunately, using the hate speech of their president to help carry out their mission.
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That includes protection for so-called "hate speech" that attacks someone's race, religion or sexual orientation.
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It should proactively identify and remove hate speech before it spreads widely enough to generate complaints.
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The first one I'll talk [about] is, we made a really significant change involving hate speech.
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Well, Apple told Reuters that it doesn't violate any of their current policies against hate speech.
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YouTube said it would remove thousands of videos and channels that promote extremism and hate speech.
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Facebook does not allow hate speech on the platform and will continue to enforce its policy.
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France has proposed taxes on technology companies, while Germany passed a law against online hate speech.
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The main offences included hate speech, anti-Semitic graffiti and displaying banned signs like the swastika.
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The social network has "virtually been optimized to accommodate" abuse and hate speech, wrote Charlie Warzel.
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And hate speech is problematic because it is so difficult for machines to recognize linguistic nuances.
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Hate speech was tougher, he said — the company catches 51 percent of that on the site.
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The rules on other types of content, including hate speech and false news, are more ambiguous.
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YouTube said the videos had violated its policies pertaining to hate speech, harassment and child endangerment.
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Last year, Twitter expanded its rules around hate speech to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups.
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He said he hoped the ruling would be used to address hate speech against gay people.
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The advocacy of free market principles is even on the precipice of being deemed hate speech.
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This hate speech and the subsequent theft of their rights did not go unnoticed or unchallenged.
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"Online hate speech is a huge problem alongside the rise of the far right," Antjoule said.
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Here's how Liam might handle a question about Facebook's hate speech policy, according to The Times.
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YouTube is implementing a new feature it says will help curb hate speech on its platform.
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Make no mistake, these terrorists were encouraged and emboldened by the hate speech of Donald Trump.
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Hate speech or speech that incites fear and violence against certain groups should not be allowed.
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The president urged Indonesians not to use the internet to spread fake news and hate speech.
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But some on the left argue that freedom of speech should not extend to hate speech.
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Although Facebook prohibits incitement and hate speech, there is no clear line between prudence and censorship.
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And they have the power to decide what is free speech and what is hate speech.
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The idea that platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram should remove hate speech is relatively uncontroversial.
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The Google-owned company also said it removed more than 500 million comments for hate speech.
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Trending up: In December, Facebook updated its standards surrounding hate speech and banned many dehumanizing comparisons.
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YouTube said it was removing five times as many videos for violating its hate speech rules.
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In compiling examples of hate speech for this article, Reuters found some that Facebook subsequently removed.
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HOUSTON — Tech has led to a lot of trouble lately: hate speech, financial scams, undermined elections.
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Nor is it clear that the magazine in question rises to the level of hate speech.
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On Monday, a United Nations report sounded an alarm over a proposed new hate speech law.
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In 2017, lawmakers in Myanmar posted hate speech and lies about the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP)Facebook claims to be doing a lot to fight hate speech.
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Bark flagged a retweet about the U.S. withdrawing troops from Syria as hate speech and cyberbullying.
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The platform has been used to spread hate speech and disinformation about the Rohingya Muslim people.
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Hate speech and incitement online has a far more powerful and multiplying effect on social networks.
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She sought to gain legal protection for spewing transphobic hate speech without consequences for her employment.
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They filter them out through human monitors, technology that identifies hate speech, and partnerships with organizations.
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When in reality, the lines of a piece of hate speech may not be so explicit.
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The Mastodon software was created to form a refuge from anger and hate speech on Twitter.
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There could be bills about, rules about hate speech, and what's allowed and what's not allowed.
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Unless penalties come down in a manner meaningful to players, hate speech will continue to flourish.
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Officials said they feared that misinformation and hate speech on the platforms could provoke more violence.
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Last week, Facebook agreed to give French judges identification data of French users suspected of hate speech, according to France's minister for digital affairs, Cedric O. The decision followed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron, whose party proposed the new hate speech law.
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Acknowledging the challenges that are inherent in judging whether something constitutes illegal hate speech or not, Jourová said the Commission does not have a target of 100% removals on illegal hate speech reports — given the "difficult work" that tech firms have to do in evaluating certain reports.
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And in a real-time illustration of just how ineffectual this rhetorical mopping-up operation was, YouTube was forced to pull the plug on its comments system, which became overrun with vicious hate speech ... as congressional investigators addressed the malignant spread of racialized hate speech on YouTube.
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In the third quarter of 2018, this technology identified 63 percent of approximately 64,000 pieces of content in Myanmar which were removed for violating hate speech policies; in the fourth quarter of 2018, 68 percent of 57,000 pieces of hate speech were proactively identified and removed.
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The owners of 8chan, the defunct message board that was filled with hate speech and hosted the rants of at least three mass shooters, are preparing to relaunch the site under a new name — and they want their old hate-speech enthusiast users to sign up.
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Greenblatt told representatives that Congress should push for the Online Safety Modernization Act to protect users from hate speech online, pressure the companies to enforce their terms of service to hold users accountable for hate speech, and advocate for independent third-party audits on those companies.
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Berlin's hate speech law also provides a major test case of cracking down on hate speech online at a time when the European Commission is examining new rules for policing content online — and looking closely at how Germany, France and the United Kingdom are handling the matter.
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If what Twitter means by bad faith actors & manipulation is abusers, harassment, hate speech, then say that.
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Free speech or hate speech US Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch will rule later on the case.
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Tensions have been high lately at Boston Latin School, with numerous allegations of hate speech from students.
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Schools are reporting instances of hate speech, racist vandalism and classes being canceled due to safety concerns.
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The First Amendment protects even hate speech, and is pretty laissez-faire when it comes to provocation.
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Eventually, the system would be able to identify hate speech in content it has never encountered before.
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Facebook has recently faced criticism in southeast Asia for it role in spreading hate speech in Myanmar.
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Twitter hasn't quite figured out how to deal with white supremacists and hate speech on its platform.
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Christian was "ranting and raving" at the teens and using "hate speech" against them, according to police.
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Click here to read our Hard Questions Blog and learn more about our approach to hate speech.
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Facebook also removed 5.4 million pieces of hate speech, compared to 4.1 million between October and March.
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An investigative report from ProPublica this year found that Facebook's policies protected white men and hate speech.
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"Promoting rape is hate speech, and should be treated as such," Boyd wrote in the petition's description.
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Macron said it would require internet platforms to quickly take down hate speech and identify the authors.
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Yes, anonymity also has its drawbacks in a social media world prone to harassment and hate speech.
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If you don't regulate hate speech and harassment, you haven't actually created a "home" for queer people.
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Governments now regulate political speech and prosecute those deemed to engage in hate speech or false speech.
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Since the 2016 election, NAF has also documented a dramatic increase in hate speech against abortion online.
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While most of the incidents involved hate speech, there were at least several instances of racist violence.
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Companies like Facebook and Twitter have been making hard decisions about hate speech for a long time.
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And Facebook, Wordpress, OkCupid, and others moved to ban white supremacists or crack down on hate speech.
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Breaking news: Google has removed Gab's Android app from the Google Play Store for "hate speech." pic.twitter.
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Interviewees also raised concerns about Facebook having a hate speech policy, saying the notion is highly subjective.
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More than a year ago, YouTube also vowed to crack down on hate speech and harmful content.
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There have been efforts in the past when it comes to removing terrorist content and hate speech.
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Others, we develop and launch, like our restrictions to minors live-streaming or updated hate speech policy.
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The swelling tide of abuse, hate-speech, and politicized misinformation finally grew too big to be ignored.
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Atomwaffen's channels were banned for "multiple or severe" violations of YouTube's hate speech rules, and remain offline.
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Germany now requires websites to remove hate speech and fake news within 24 hours of being notified.
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Tumblr is changing its community guidelines to more explicitly ban hate speech, glorifying violence, and revenge porn.
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Even in countries where there are very detailed laws about hate speech, like Germany, there is disagreement.
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The measure is an obvious response to the recent upsurge in deplorable hate speech incidents involving celebrities.
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Hate speech doesn't have a place in any arena, let alone something as personal as social media.
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The extension itself was removed earlier today from the Chrome store for violating its hate speech policy.
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When Facebook removed a piece of "hate speech" from its platform, it raised quite a few eyebrows.
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"We've always had a set of policies that define what we would consider hate speech," he says.
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Social media platforms say they are trying to enforce standards of conduct and bans on hate speech.
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"We have longstanding policies against child endangerment and hate speech," a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement.
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Facebook reversed itself 152,000 times out of the 1.1 million appeals it heard related to hate speech.
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The social network, for example, recently tagged an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence as hate speech.
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Some activists and rights groups, however, were not totally convinced of the threat of online hate speech.
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WhatsApp cannot view private, encrypted conversations, a WhatsApp spokeswoman said, so detecting hate speech there is harder.
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Facebook has no problem weighing in on things like hate speech and sensationalist news, the company insisted.
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Many users spread misinformation and hate speech on the site, and even used it to plan attacks.
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The company largely relies on local users to report hate speech or incidents like last month's auction.
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"The whole goal with this was to make sure that we didn't have hate speech," he said.
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Violence, hate speech, and racism are all issues that Facebook has been contending with in recent years.
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Some of these subreddits are known culprits of hate speech and behavior that violates Reddit's community guidelines.
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Earlier this week, the Indonesian Communications Ministry blocked 11 websites for spreading hate speech and fake news.
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On Thursday, Bosnia's election commission fined Dodik and his SNSD party 6,000 euros ($6,912.60) for hate speech.
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In April, Facebook released a selection of rules for when it takes down content, including hate speech.
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Now, one day later, Google has pulled the extension for violating its hate speech policy, Engadget reports.
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The category includes efforts to root out fake accounts, scrub hate speech and take down violent videos.
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The first is to adjust the algorithms being used to identify hate speech by applying journalism expertise.
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" Don Lemon accused the campaign of "creating a political environment that is inciting hate and hate speech.
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It needs to tackle the hate speech it fuels, as well as online misinformation and fake news.
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The companies that punished Jones said they did so because he violated their policies on hate speech.
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Whoopi GoldbergWhoopi GoldbergJoy Behar on Trump: 'Why can't he be brought up on charges of hate speech?
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On the other hand, consider all the true ideas that could be banned under hate speech laws.
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Many Facebook employees advocated removing Donald Trump's posts as hate speech, though Mark Zuckerberg admirably pushed back.
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Today is memes and tomorrow is "ill-defined 'hate speech'" the advocacy group wrote on its website.
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That, of course, does not mean we should ever make excuses for extremist rhetoric of hate speech.
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They say his death is proof that words matter and hate speech should be taken more seriously.
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You can block people who use hate speech, but this can be tricky socially for some kids.
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How to talk to kids about difficult subjects Let's be clear: The internet didn't create hate speech.
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Here are some ideas for you to discuss with your kids and tips to handle hate speech.
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He has been charged with hate speech for what prosecutors say were racist and anti-gay comments.
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Roughly half of the 90,000 tweets mentioning her included hate speech or Islamophobic or anti-immigrant language.
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We do filter the remixes for hate speech, or unauthorized commercial speech, but that has never happened.
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Marky Z and French President Emmanuel Macron talking about hate speech last month at the Elysee Palace.
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Zuckerberg has faced intense criticism for months over his platform's handling of hate speech and conspiracy theories.
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It's the one that signed an agreement with the European Union last month to monitor hate speech.
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From a practical standpoint, policing hate speech on a platform with 310 million monthly users is difficult.
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"Hate speech is really hard," said Alex Schultz, Facebook's VP of analytics, in a briefing with reporters.
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High schoolers have been expelled or threatened with expulsion over hate speech in Illinois, Oregon, and Michigan.
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Our policies have never allowed hate speech and projects that promote it are not permitted on Kickstarter.
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Consider what happens when websites have different definitions of what constitutes defamatory content, hate speech, or bullying.
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"Trump has consistently normalized violence, sexual deviance, bigotry and hate speech," she said in an email interview.
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Most of those companies said the site had violated their policies by promoting hate speech and misinformation.
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Eighty percent say political correctness is a problem, and 82 percent say the same about hate speech.
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We always grapple with it, you know, in terms of, well, what role does hate speech play?
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With "hate speech," Facebook says last fall it removed more than 50 percent of posts using algorithms.
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Details: The goal is to push tech companies to regulate content and crack down on hate speech.
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The letter cautions tech companies not to let such political pressure stop them from fighting hate speech.
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Research does show that exposure to frequent use of hate speech desensitizes people and can increase prejudice.
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Guidelines for policing hate speech in Myanmar instruct moderators not to remove posts supporting Ma Ba Tha.
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" Reposting the screenshot, the company said, "is the same as writing the hate speech all over again.
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Hundreds of users reported the ad as hate speech, and within a day the ad was removed.
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We risk allowing hate speech to become palatable, when it is placed in the mouths of ponies.
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Facebook has also had difficulty dealing with hate speech, which is expected to intensify during the election.
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We've done the same to protect against terrorism and hate speech and to better safeguard people's data.
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Can classrooms aspire to being "safe spaces" if students engage in hate speech and openly carry guns?
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Today, echoes of Grant can be heard in the hate speech of white nationalists like Richard Spencer.
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But hate speech is different, Zuckerberg says, and the technology just hasn't caught up with the language.
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YouTube attributed the removal of more than 500 million comments largely to its new hate speech policy.
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Nearly two-thirds of students also said they did not believe the Constitution should protect hate speech.
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Anything that devolves into bullying, hate mobs, online hate speech, or cancel campaigns becomes another beast entirely.
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Hate speech versus freedom of speech, spreading unfounded propaganda, and harassment have all been deliberated at length.
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What counts as offensive is subjective, so "hate speech" laws can be elastic tools for criminalising dissent.
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Hate speech against Muslims soared in Britain after the vote in June to leave the European Union.
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"We support robust debate, but we cannot abide by harassment, slander, defamation, and hate speech," they wrote.
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Surely, others can learn from them, particularly as the world faces increased hate speech and violent extremism.
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Hostile Imams began preaching hate speech against infidels from Western European city slums to Somalia to Pakistan.
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Mr. Thukral was conciliatory, acknowledging that Facebook had failed to address hate speech and promising better collaboration.
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Facebook declined to provide examples of graphically violent posts or hate speech that it removed, for example.
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Germany's hard-line approach to hate speech and data privacy once made it an outlier in Europe.
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Fernando said authorities would closely monitor the networks for any hate speech that could damage ethnic harmony.
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Asked by Vox last year how platforms should be held responsible for hate speech or misinformation, Sen.
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Sanduja said "it doesn't make sense" that Google would suddenly be concerned with complaints over hate speech.
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Those include new tools and technologies to prevent fake accounts, false stories, clickbait, harassment and hate speech.
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Facebook's much-toted machine learning algorithms for policing hate speech have also been regularly lambasted as inadequate.
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Moderation algorithms often can't tell the difference between one user promoting hate speech and another criticizing it.
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The tech companies said they removed Jones' material for violating policies related to hate speech and harassment.
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She also noted that "threats of political violence and hate speech are not unique" to the man.
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He criticized Zuckerberg in particular, accusing Facebook of facilitating the spread of hate speech and conspiracy theories.
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Wilders was entirely acquitted on a count of committing hate speech, a separate charge under Dutch law.
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How can you pinpoint the dissemination and origination of hate speech when it comes from all over?
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So you're already starting to see this; I mean, there was the hate speech law in Germany.
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And still, there's a lot of stuff people would consider hate speech or harassment on the site.
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As the researchers explained:We observed no change in the hate speech usage of migrants in the invaded subreddits postban (p-value≥ 0.122; the lower-bound in Table 6), nor did we see any significant change in the hate speech usage of preexisting users in these subreddits (p-value≥ 0.136).
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His music is instrumental so technically there is no hate speech being conveyed beyond the visual aesthetic so it is very interesting that he has been banned from Bandcamp and YouTube while some explicitly hate-speech filled nazi punk and metal have not been censored from those platforms.
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It is calling on Facebook to do more to protect vulnerable minorities in Assam, arguing it should not rely solely on automated tools for detecting hate speech — and should instead apply a "human-led 'zero tolerance' policy" against hate speech, starting by beefing up moderators' expertise in local languages.
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Others have attempted to tie Section 230 to the spread of hate speech online, though the connection between the two is flimsy at best: Since hate speech is not a defined crime in the United States, Section 230 has no bearing on whether websites are allowed to host it.
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Big distinction here: There's a world of difference between engaging in a discussion, however spirited, and hate speech.
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Laws to combat anti-Islamic hate speech tend to clamp down on free expression, and worsen the tensions.
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They established the Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab, which seeks engineering solutions to remedy hate speech on the web.
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We have the violent speech policy, but the majority of our top communities have a hate speech policy.
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YouTube confirmed to Motherboard that the video giant is applying these new techniques to hate-speech related content.
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But some protesters said the Yiannopoulos event wasn't a matter of free speech, because he espouses hate speech.
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Facebook's policies have long banned violent threats and hate speech, but the platform has sometimes struggled with enforcement.
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"The hate speech directed toward journalists has increased massively, causing serious concern for their safety," the report said.
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Hate-speech has been notably absent from large public speeches in both campaigns - an important difference from 2007.
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Indeed, the biggest barrier to tamping down the kind of hate speech that leads to violence isn't technological.
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Sometimes people share content containing someone else's hate speech for the purpose of raising awareness or educating others.
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In both cases, the people accused of these crimes shared their violent hate speech on social media networks.
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Whenever she writes about charities, causes, or Muslim holidays, people inevitably fill her comment sections with hate speech.
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A controversial slide depicting Facebook's now-defunct policy that disqualified subsets of protected groups from hate speech shielding.
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Facebook has an inconsistent record when it comes to determining who exactly should be protected from hate speech.
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Restricting the use of "hate speech" is difficult and dangerous because it is often so difficult to define.
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When asked for comment, a Twitter spokesperson contested this characterization, saying the company does not prohibit hate speech.
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And as you were saying, it's kind of mixed up with the discussions around terrorism and hate speech.
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The comment sections quickly flooded with hate speech and white nationalist memes before the hearing had even started.
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The company removed the entire libraries for five out of Infowars' six podcasts, under its hate speech guidelines.
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In Myanmar, hate speech spread on the company's Messenger app amplified calls for the genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
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Over the years, the company has publicly called out and banned users who demonstrate misogyny and hate speech.
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Critics say that Section 230 has allowed companies to ignore everything from hate speech to reckless gun sales.
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White supremacist rhetoric is protected under American law, for instance, but it's banned as hate speech on Facebook.
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Companies such as Facebook and Twitter have also been pressed to remove conspiracy driven content and hate speech.
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Twitter declined to comment on ShareChat's misinformation and hate speech problem and asked BuzzFeed News to contact ShareChat.
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According to the Associate Press, French lawmakers were divided on how they define hate speech in the bill.
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The UK is also about to take up its own law targeting hate speech and other harmful content.
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Spreading insults and hate-speech online would also carry stiffer sentences, reflecting the "unlimited reach" of such comments.
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Gone are the bad old "glory days" when hate speech was widely used and ignored by the public.
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In 2017, studies showed that 41 percent of US adults had been the targets of hate speech online.
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Currently there is a voluntary Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech across the European Union.
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German authorities have urged Facebook and other tech companies to aggressively police both fake news and hate speech.
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And how do the unique mechanics of our platform enable bad actors to organize and spread hate speech?
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" He said they must also do a better job keeping "hate speech and harmful misinformation off their platforms.
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Or Twitter providing a safe place for nazis to spread violent hate speech and misogynists to harass women.
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Since 2015 Spain's courts have convicted more than 50 people for "hate speech" or the glorification of terrorism.
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In August, YouTube unveiled a revamped policy to better suppress or, in some cases, censor hate speech content.
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In 50, for example, the number of criminal investigations into online hate speech in Berlin rose by 50%.
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Earlier this month, German police also raided the homes of 36 people accused of posting hate speech online.
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More, it is said, must be done to monitor neo-Nazi networks and hate speech on the web.
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Germany is known for its relatively firm laws on hate speech, which prohibits praising Nazi ideology, for example.
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That's where hate speech, which is not illegal in the US, thanks to First Amendment protection, typically falls.
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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was banned by Facebook last month for repeat violations of its policies on hate speech.
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Regulators are increasingly pushing for new powers to punish social media companies for failing to tackle hate speech.
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The same goes for posts that don't come within our definition of hate speech but are still offensive.
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The changes include two key new functions: muting entire conversation threads and specifying reported tweets as hate speech.
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The raids illustrate significant differences between how Germany treats hate speech online when compared with the United States.
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This isn't the first time Huffman has found himself in hot water over his stance on hate speech.
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A government body monitoring hate speech says that it has seen a spike since the Supreme Court ruling.
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Globally, the social network removed 280,000 posts that violated its hate speech standards for every month of 2017.
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Timeline: June 53: Facebook reconfirms their commitment to oppose hate speech by publishing their definition and enforcement policies.
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Facebook said it could not estimate the prevalence of posts promoting terrorism or hate speech or containing spam.
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In terms of hate speech, companies need to get better at policing the content on their own platforms.
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President Maithripala Sirisena has been criticized for failing to curb religious hate speech by both Muslims and Buddhists.
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Other countries in the bloc, including Germany and France, have taken steps to rein in hate speech online.
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Now, the election may turn on what further evidence exists of Trump's hate speech, rampant misogyny, or wrongdoing.
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The SPLC is an Alabama-based nonprofit organization that monitors hate crimes and hate speech across the country.
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"There will be no preaching of hate speech of any kind against any religion or sect," he said.
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Back in July, the site issued a strike against Infowars, for violating child endangerment and hate speech policies.
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Italian politicians have long petitioned Facebook to do more to tackle the problems of hate speech and disinformation.
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At the end of the day, protecting "free speech" absolutely should not require gifting hate speech a microphone.
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They lined up to block the entrance and it made it clear his hate speech was not welcome.
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And if it continues to improve moderators' accuracy, Facebook says the change will affect all hate speech reviews.
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If there's one rule that you would push forward, would it be around the gig economy, hate speech?
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Politicians have gleefully jumped on the bandwagon, and are increasingly using laws against "hate speech" to punish dissidents.
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Now, Twitter is monitoring user behavior on and off platform and has been banning users for hate speech.
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Germany has seen a recent surge in online hate speech, fueled in part by the ongoing refugee crisis.
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Incidents of hate-speech vandalism have occurred at other schools in the area, according to the Boston Globe.
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Understandably, many people are increasingly calling on social media platforms to clamp down even more on hate speech.
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Democrats owe the American people an apology after the House passed the watered down resolution against hate speech.
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So far, most attempts at combating hate speech online has relied on analyzing speech after it's been posted.
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"There's no place for hate speech on Facebook," said Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management at Facebook.
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We broke the story ... Waka is pissed the DJ is still on the air after using hate speech.
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Riots have broken out elsewhere in the Buddhist-majority country, while anti-Muslim hate speech has proliferated online.
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For a glimpse of what it looks like when put into practice, look to European hate speech laws.
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In 2016, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube signed an EU code of conduct on countering hate speech online.
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Germany has specific hate speech laws which criminalize certain types of speech, such as incitement to racial violence.
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"His hate speech appeals to lower passions like xenophobia, machismo, political intolerance and religious dogmatism," the letter said.
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Others argue that some kinds of speech critical of the state of Israel is anti-Semitic hate speech.
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One particularly interesting section contends that conservatives are upset with Facebook for having hate speech policies at all.
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Twitter has recently taken a harder stance on hate speech and released a roadmap for changes to come.
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Deep learning aids Facebook's content filtering, too, and helps remove things like hate speech from the social network.
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Sensible people can also debate the control of hatred (although hate speech laws present a significant danger themselves).
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There are also renewed calls in the United Nations to make hate speech a type of international crime.
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The normalization of hate speech contributes to excusing the unjust killings of numerous unarmed black and brown people.
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For it to be hate speech, it must be coupled with a call to action to inflict harm.
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Dorsey himself admitted that curbing hate speech on Twitter has been a slow process that's included several stumbles.
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When someone expresses vicious views about a group or toward an attribute of a group, that's hate speech.
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From Wahhabism to hate speech to incitement and women's rights, the US has compromised on its values repeatedly.
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Hate speech is implicitly dehumanizing and blows a big, loud dog whistle for audiences to go after targets.
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Which makes high profile 'Facebook bans' of hate speech activists mostly a crisis PR exercise for the company.
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Emoji Facebook apparently views as potentially indicating hate speech include a rainbow flag, various animals, and a fist.
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They cited an interview Zuckerberg did with Vox, in which he said Facebook's systems "detected" the hate speech.
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Unlike nudity or terrorism-related content, though, hate speech is still primarily discovered by humans, not software programs.
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I encountered Islamophobic hate speech using the Discover tool in my first few minutes of using the app.
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Taken together, Silicon Valley's crackdown on fake news and hate speech has led to big returns for Gab.
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But Apple's certainly taken a much stronger approach around issues of hate speech than many fellow tech giants.
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The debate over how to treat hate speech in America is more relevant than it's possibly ever been.
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The Commission itself has warned it could draw up EU-wide legislation to regulate platforms over hate speech.
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YouTube: Earlier this month, the video site announced plans to institute stricter guidelines with regard to hate speech.
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Criminalizing hate speech, opponents say, would have a chilling effect on another hard-won victory: freedom of expression.
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Natalie: For many students, it's not just about hate speech, but the kind of speech that creates harm.
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Natalie: But you do take a hard line in your book that even hate speech must be protected.
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American lawmakers have done the same, citing research linking social media to polarization, foreign meddling and hate speech.
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One in every 15 posts on /pol/ so far in 2019 has included some term of hate speech.
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Adding more A.I. to monitor hate speech and more rules designed to protect privacy can't change Facebook's fundamentals.
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Then there are the federal hate speech charges leveled against Bolsonaro for his racist, homophobic and misogynist rants.
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" He said they must also do a better job keeping "hate speech and harmful misinformation off their platforms.
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It is also trying to deal with other questionable content, such as death threats, hate speech and extremism.
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They have created a haven for dangerous misinformation and hate speech that has undermined trust in democratic institutions.
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You know, Facebook obviously dealing with a lot of the Russia stuff, a lot of the hate speech.
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The Twitter accounts of German citizens were blocked because of rules enacted last year that prohibit hate speech.
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To be sure, this would tie their hands more: Unlike "hate speech," libel and slander have legal meanings.
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He says he is focused on "terrorism," rather than the more amorphous categories of hate speech and extremism.
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There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?
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Spotify cited its own prohibition on hate speech as the reason for removing a podcast by Mr. Jones.
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That has allowed hate speech, fake news and disturbing videos aimed at children to proliferate on those platforms.
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Content Policies: Conservative interviewees identified concerns in community standards around what was considered hate speech and hate organizations.
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I believe you can't have editorial neutrality without having Nazis and other purveyors of hate speech and abuse.
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The pro-Trump enclave has become well-known for spreading fake news, InfoWars-style conspiracies, and hate speech.
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As the coronavirus epidemic, and online hate speech, have spread, so have offline attacks directed at Asian Americans.
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According to Mr. Mihr, Germany's current instruments for persecuting hate speech, as demonstrated by Tuesday's raids, are working.
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"You should not be allowed to have a platform to promote hate speech and lies," one commenter wrote.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has been accused of amplifying disinformation, hate speech and violent content.
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Civil society groups said the Facebook chief mischaracterized his company's effectiveness at quashing hate speech in the country.
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But today, thanks to meme culture, online audiences can flip hate speech on its head faster than ever.
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The company has introduced a range of policies restricting hate speech, extremist content and the exploitation of children.
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It is also deeply concerning that hate speech and various hate crimes since Trump's have occurred in schools.
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The concentration camps were the final result of years of vile, racist hate speech against the Jewish people.
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"Terrorism, hate speech, human trafficking, sexual assault and other horrific imagery actually benefits the sites monetarily," Leetaru added.
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Again, we regret that our customers were exposed to this hate speech, and thank you for notifying us.
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And America's reverence for the First Amendment blinds the nation to the dangers of letting hate speech fester.
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Last July, he was permanently barred from Twitter for violating the platform's rules against hate speech and harassment.
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Facebook, by contrast, says it won't label any content from politicians that crosses the line into hate speech.
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AI still has a long way to go before it can reliably detect hate speech or violence online.
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London (CNN Business)Facebook and Instagram are banning British far-right activist Tommy Robinson for posting hate speech.
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"Moderators constantly will ask one another on most hate speech jobs on how they read it," they added.
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Berlin's digital crackdown on hate speech, which took effect last year, is being closely watched by other countries.
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The broader team includes experts in enforcement in areas like child safety, hate speech, counterterrorism and legal specialists.
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"We do not tolerate hate speech," he said, adding the person involved was banned from the group immediately.
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She said too little was being done to take down violent hate speech and to protect the Roma.
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Evalion isn't the first to build an online presence that blurs the lines between trolling and hate speech.
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But when it comes to policing hate speech, propaganda, and even fake news, it's just a different story.
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But hate speech in particular is a tough problem for algorithms — much tougher than screening for obscene images.
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Zuckerberg clearly isn't jumping at the idea of telling the world where the line is on hate speech.
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"If the rule is that any time a protected class is mentioned it could be hate speech, what you are doing at that point is opening up just about every comment that's ever made about anyone on Facebook to potentially be hate speech," producer Simon Adler says on the show.
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But the notion of the UK being able to secure international agreement on harmonizing content regulation online across borders seems entirely fanciful — given different legal regimes vis-a-vis free speech, with the US having constitutional protections for hate speech vs hate speech being illegal in certain European countries, for example.
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