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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

It’s not censorship to stop hateful online content, insists UN rights chief

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It’s not censorship to stop hateful online content, insists UN rights chief

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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Social media posts inciting hate and division have “real world consequences” and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted on Friday, following Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking programme in the United States.
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    “BAAAHHH!!! YOU’RE CENSORING MY HATE SPEECH, RACIST SLURS AND DEATH THREATS!!! WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”

    That CANNOT be the arguement you stand behind.

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      I mean, we do that. Just say it’s good to censor bad things. There’s nothing wrong with that, so don’t lie about what you’re doing.

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      No one said it had to be platformed, but call a spade a spade

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      The argument is the dictionary.

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        Which one?

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