EU Urges Facebook, X, and YouTube to Step Up Fight Against Online Hate Speech

EU Urges Facebook, X, and YouTube to Step Up Fight Against Online Hate Speech



by Lionzzo

32 comments

  2. Develop public European alternatives to these platforms.

  5. Hate speech on American social media is a feature, not a bug.

    Why would they disable their most profitable feature?

  6. Yeah, no. Europe is becoming progressively more right wing and right wingers love hate speech. They are only against sharing information about their scams and grifts.

  7. I’m sure asking nicely to people who see themselves above the law will solve the problem.

  8. The idea sounds nice but since noone is arguing from principle anymore and everything is very hypocritical these days, what is considered “hate” is always dependend on the political situation. It becomes a weapon which can then be used by others. And once the right wingers are in power again, I don’t want criticism of rightwing policies and sentiment to be deleted on the grounds they are hateful. So be careful what you wish for.

  9. Yeah, right. Just look at who is sitting in the front row of the inauguration, each giving 1 million to the new king.

  10. Yeah, this takes too long. The MEGA plan is a treath to us all and the EU just noticed there might be a tiny issue with social media.

  11. If you let people burn your flags on the streets, you gotta let people say F ck Y u about it online.

  12. If they become a problem ban them, hate speech is a crime on many countries. If they can’t police themselves they shouldn’t be allowed to operate. The idea that you should be allowed to say whatever you want without consequences is not something most people outside the US support without limits.

  13. “Hate speech” is a flexible term depending on the individual so no thanks.

  15. Good/sufficient mechanisms against misinfo would be much more important! This anti-hati-speech stuff would largely result in lots of unwarranted censorship. Third, nobody seems to care about the already prevalent censorship and [semi-censorship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Online_semi-censorship) (i.e. hiding comments and deboosting posts) on YouTube and X (and even often on reddit by mods if they don’t like a post or user in many subs like /r/de). In short, please call for improving or adding mechanisms against misinfo like Community Notes (e.g. algorithms that identify posts to review or bots that correct misinfo).

  16. Hate and rage make too much money. This needs to start in homes and schools, but it never will.

    People are too spoiled with entertainment. Almost everyone is addicted. I have even gotten into arguments with people in real life because I really don’t want to see a insta reel or tiktok or YouTube short but they have nothing else they can think of to do or say but keep saying “watch this video!”

    Nope. Not gonna do it and I’m perfectly okay with having less friends as a result. 95% of people cannot say the same and walk away and stay away.

  17. Stop expecting the politicians to regulate and get your fingers out of the diarrhea of your own free will.

    These platforms are toxic.

  18. ‘Urges’, ‘asks’, ‘warns’, etc. But no action from craven, weak and impotent EU politicians.

  19. No, I prefer having people say what they actually think. This hate speech is peoples actual feelings and opinions.

    Crazy how we lived with censorship for so long we forgot most people are indeed racist and xenophobic, its just that it was unpopular to be so and you would also get removed from the space pretty quickly.

    By the way, all this does is radicalise people even more because now they think everybody is against them and the system isn’t allowing them to express themselves, but they do allow other far end of the opposition to do so.

    Its funny, because this shift is proof that censorship like we had before does not work at all, as soon as it ended the whole sites got filled with an alphabet of “isms”. Censorship didn’t change people, it didn’t make them go away, they were always here and they never changed their opinion, You just didn’t allow them to say it (which again, radicalises them).

    When Instagram comments are more real and genuine than a site literally designed to have conversation and be used as a forum (Reddit) something is clearly wrong here.

    This is pretty much why the right is rising in EU, the sky is blue but you keep telling them that its green. Keep it up, it will surely end well with our own Donalds, which we already have like 5 of.

  20. Honestly, at this day of age I rather the EU just find other alternatives and shut these sites down in EU.

  21. Don’t urge, just straight up ban if they don’t comply.

  22. They should just block the website promoting hate speech, even if promoting means not blocking it

  23. Facebook is a money portal for Zuckerberg he could care less….Twitter (I refuse to call it “X”) was purchased by Musk for the sole purpose of crashing it’s more liberal and fact-checker previous owners and then let loose every right wing nutjob back online, then he cut 75% of the workforce, again, just to crash the company.

  24. Why? I as a european citizen dont want anymore censorship online, fo we really not have anything more important to do then censorship and surveilance? Fuck this shit the next EU election I am voting for anyone who wants to leave.

  25. One concrete thing the EU could do is to demand that social networks don’t give preferential treatment to individuals – the algorithm applies to everyone, or nobody (because the service won’t be allowed).

    X would be fucked, considering the preferential treatment Cissy SpaceX gives himself.

  26. Anyone that points out that EU is run by satanic pedophiles that want to bankrupt every european country is labeled as “hate speech”.

    No thanks.

    Europe needs more “hate speech” and less coddling of malicious actors.

    Start by arresting Ursula Wonder Liar. 

  28. I’d rather they step up fight against Russian and Chinese misinformation and propaganda, but I guess feefees being hurt is important as well

  29. Wake me up when it says ‘forces’ instead of ‘urges’

  30. Europe is not even trying anymore, mass censorship is on the front page and people here, especially on reddit, seem to love it!

    I thought you guys hate the Chat control thing? How is this different? This is actually bigger than chat control

  31. I totally agree, but why ask? They are going there at the inauguration of the person that used hate speech as his propaganda tool… We need to ban them. Or fine them a lot of money.

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