Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced. Political speech, being the most protected form of speech under the First Amendment, warrants the highest level of scrutiny against the laws that regulate it.
Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.
Inoffensive speech needs no protection. The First Amendment was developed precisely in order to protect speech that was offensive to some, in order to prevent those who had power from claiming they were offended by speech opposing them and silencing the powerless.
A free society is by its nature one in which people put up with others being uncivil and offensive. The alternative is a quiet authoritarian society in which only one opinion is allowed and the others are silenced, and ultimately sent to the camps.
Zuckerberg Vows Facebook Will Work With Governments on Hate Speech
By Alan Katz and Bloomberg, Fortune, May 10, 2019
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said his company would work with governments to determine what content is acceptable on social-media networks.
Zuckerberg made the comments in an interview on France2 television after meeting with President Emmanuel Macron on Friday and following the release of a French government report that said new regulation should be applied to large social-media companies.
“Democracy works, and that’s why we want to work with the Macron government,” Zuckerberg said in a French translation of the interview. “We’re responsible for making sure that hate speech isn’t on our products and services, but what seems important is that there needs to be a public process to determine what is unacceptable, what mustn’t be on these networks, and we’re going to work with governments to do it.”
Facebook and other social media companies are confronting a crescendo of criticism in Europe and the U.S. over how they handle personal data, hate speech, and their vulnerability to manipulation. The rising outrage prompted Zuckerberg in March to call for government regulation of four broad areas — harmful content, election integrity, privacy, and data portability.
The French government report, which will serve as a basis for redefining how France deals with hate speech, said new rules should make social networks accountable “for protecting the integrity their members, protecting users from abuse by other members and third-party attempts to manipulate the platform.”
Zuckerberg filed another post after his meeting with Macron. “We both believe governments should take a more active role around important issues like balancing expression and safety, privacy and data portability, and preventing election interference,” he wrote. “There are nuanced decisions to make here, such as how we should handle content that isn’t illegal but might cause harm.”
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“hate speech” is not a thing under the 1rst amendment, so basically “hate speech” is anything that his share holders say is “hate speech” gee i wonder how much of fakebook is propped up with oil money from arab dictators?
And the Chinese… Social credit.
Yes.
They have money, and power goes with it.
Ask any billionaire how much is enough. His response: “just a little bit more”.
Facebook is going to die. People are waking up to what Facebook is.
It’s a group-think control system. The discourse on Facebook can be summed up as the lowest common demonator agreed upon thinking where nothing controversial is ever discussed (unless its degenerate leftist), everyone is searching for likes for a dopamine rush that reinforces the group think patterns, and anyone expressing views outside of this is eventually censored by the ministers of information at Facebook.
It’s an ego-feeding indoctrination system that violates your privacy while conditioning your thoughts to make you a better cog in the globalist system.
Let Facebook die. All you have to do is stop using it.
I wish you were right, but there are too many shallow and foolish people that want to use it.
I never used it….but I think Zuckie has other ways of monitoring what I say online….I don’t think we know half of it yet.
I recall that when Killary and Obama wanted to cause the regime change in the ME….Zuckie went over there and put up cell phone towers so the rioters in the Arab Spring could co-ordinate their “spontaneous” rioting. I remember that clearly…and I recall that he and his people are on the White House log for hundreds of “visits” to Obama…..
Phrases like “hate speech” and “assault weapon” were coined by the real haters. There are laws to deal with
violence, but creating a phrase without “defining” what is covered should never have been allowed. The people, who created that are not different than those, who coined “Islamophobia.” As they come to power they will define a new group that will suffer similar fates to those that suffered the Trail of Tears, the Armenian Genocide, the Rape of Nanking, the Holocaust. You fill in the blanks. As the West has changed from Christian to Humanism the rules are made by those in power. იოსებ სტალინი otherwise known as Иосиф Сталин, Joseph Stalin for the rest of us, sent more than 7 million Ukrainians to death because they not in the elite crowd and no one wanted to talk about it.
Stalin killed far more people than a mere 7 million during his reign of Communist terror — at least according to this article:
‘From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of
Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps
(“Gulag”). Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators
because of his secret police and the Gulags.’
https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Joseph-Stalin-Genocide-F3A25CUSCPRSX
Very true indeed. As well, he had immediate members of his own family slaughtered for disagreeing with him, or even if he “thought” they might disagree with his degenerate policies. Just read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn. First hand story, he lived it, he was sent the Gulags. And just visit the “Holdomor Museum” in Kyiv as well. As far as just Ukrainians alone are concerned, according to the records at this museum as many as 10 million Ukrainians were literally starved to death and/or just slaughtered. Stalin was one sick, demented son of a bitch. Sadly, there is a resurgence of love for Stalin in many places in Russia. Very scary stuff.
Hate speech is anything the Globalists define as hate speech. It’s used to cow those who don’t want to be ruled. Straight out of Saul Alinsky’s “RULES FOR RADICALS.”
I’m beginning to feel like I live in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four”…it’s happening right before my eyes.
What will be the turning point?
Will we stop it? Or will they take over?
Due to the massive anhiliation of the left in the last Australian federal election ☺ the failure of the polls including exit polls for the last 14 months all stated the opposite(fake polls to bring the desired outcome of a leftwing win) the MSM are adamant now that polls should be ousted and social media comments should be the new indicator for instead of polls, so what can go wrong?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/worse-than-the-trump-polling-fail-how-did-the-federal-election-polls-get-it-so-wrong
We got to stay away from Australian Broadcasting Corp, with its hard line left push with lies and other media of the left.
Lots need sacking in the media.
Enough of this nonsense, Facebook, Google, need to be broken up under RICO
RICO wouldn’t break them up. It could, on the other hand, imprison them and place fines at treble damage.
He looks like a creepy gay guy, or is he a transexual part of the German Brownshirts
You need to read the book “The Pink Swastika” by Abrams and Lively.
Anything named the “Pink Swastika” is nothing I want on my recently purchased list off Amazon. Besides their is no way I am going to read a history book written by the winners of WW2 about the losers. My guess is that it going to be fairly bias. Maybe even disingenuous. Or down right lies.
Well, I need not put more money into Bezos pocket, I already subsidize his shipping costs. He’s the ultimate monopolist. That said, find a ebook some where on-line. Lively is a Constitutional Attorney and a Christian. Abrams is an orthodox Jew. Biased? Facts hurt and too many don’t want to hear the facts. Here is one example:
https://drrichswier.com/2015/10/08/the-pink-swastika-hijacking-the-holocaust/
It’s interesting that Dinesh D’Souza actually alludes to these facts in his last film “Death of A Nation.”
…I’ll be honest….to me he looks like an alien from outer space….he doesn’t look human.
We going to need every ones help with what ever they can do with Canada, UK, elections and other countries as France to fight back.
Prayer for one
Learn from Australia Opion and Analysis on this page, many article’s and how the left was pushed back. Climate Change, Polls all wrong and so much more
https://www.skynews.com.au/
I’ve never imagined this MarkRobot will control public opinion….to the full extent.
First hate speech may exist but we already have laws on the books to control calls to violence, they should look to existing laws not make their own rules.
The term and application of the word “hate” has been harnessed by the Left. Hate means what the Left says it means.
Kind of like using the racist, homophobic, misogynist, nazi and nationalist terms since 2008…libturds love to call everyone what they are using their projection skills.
…on any given day.
Hate is just a term now used to shut down all debate and try to force the audience to tune out what ever the opponent debater says. It’s hateful you don’t have to listen or approve of them anymore.
The extremists in the left, the globalist, Muslims, international bankers, European type socialists use the term “Hate Speech” every time they get caught ripping people off, or doing a scam, they cast the words like a spell. To confuse the gentile laborers. Another powerful spell or phrase is “Conspiracy Theory” for anyone who notices any pattern of the group of criminals in power through out modern history.
Why, why are people using “Farcebook”???
….because they were lured in under false pretenses….and they used it to substitute not picking up the phone and talking with the person or seeing them….they thought it was more convenient…..Now Zuckie and the Globalist know everything about you and others…..information that can be used to destroy you and others….
I don’t use it….but when family puts information on their posts about me….then I become a target as well. It’s like a cancer….it just keeps growing.
Hate speech will be defined as anything that conflicts with Zionism/globalism and their efforts to destroy a free society.
The global elite are maneuvering to commit the worst genocide in human history.
Entire western cultures will be obliterated over the next few decades if these bastards are not defeated.
“Zionism/globalism”? How long did it take you, and your imam, to put together that “comment”, fuzzi?
Idiot, globalists AND Zionists advocate importation of Muslims to western countries.
How dense are you?
Obviously not NEARLY as dense as you, little fuzzi. I have seen NO evidence of Zionists advocating your type (moslems) entering Western nations. However, you being a moslem .. what other type of reply is to be expected?
Try following ADL (Zionist) for awhile. See how often they advocate for refugee resettlement in America.
ADL seems to be rather anti-Israel. How can a moslem loving, Israel hating organization be “zionist’? Better ask your imam, on that one, little fuzzi.
Really, it’s a Jewish organization. It routinely gets involved when they want criticism of Zionism shut down and always with claims of anti-semetism even for legitimate complaints.
What reality are you getting your info from?
My reality surely isn’t coming from your mosque or what your imam whispers to you, during your intimate moments, little fuzzi.
You sure are classy.
Compared to ANY of your type (moslems) that’s an undeniable truth.
You sure are classy.
True
I blocked “achmed” a long time ago….”it” is sitting up there in Canada being paid to troll Pamela….
^This is 1000% true, Zionism and Globalists run the Open Borders Society which bribes politicians throughout the world to enforce Open Borders. The jews and their rabbi’s openly state they feel safer and are more successful in Polyglot Societies that have many different types of people working against each other. Thus allowing a closely knit racial and religious group to work together for success while the rest of the goyim fight with each other over their scraps.
There has been countless articles and books by jews and their rabbi’s discussing this. People link quotes all over the internet about this all the time.
Muzzies use the Open Borders Society or are pawns of it? Not sure about that relationship. But I am just a dumb goy. What do I know?
Never mind, I get where you’re coming from (((Achmed))).
BS…if they wanted to cut out hate speech they would block all muslims and anything associated with islam!!!!
Who decides between hate speech and fact? If I said someone was a mass murdering, slave trading, rapist paedophile and could prove it, would that be hate speech or fact??
Yeah…he’ll work AGAINST the right on hate speech but the left bigots and islamists will get away with it!
More of the left’s social engineering. And double standards as well, because obviously Islam will get “a free pass”.
…proof of your statement…..we now have 3 known Muslims in our Congress….and it’s only going to get worse.
Well other religions have gotten a free pass for a long time and “Hate Speech” came out the leftist Universities and was used to shut down discussion gays, jews, blacks cultural behavior way before it was ever picked up by the muslims as a culture war shield. “Minorities” in white countries used it and the muzzies picked up on that and used it too.
One group that might be picking up the shield soon is white goys. It seems that white goys are the only thing allowed to be openly called to be murdered on social media without repercussions neither is it considered hate speech. Because the “Minorities” openly express their hatred for living in and around white goys.
Oy Vey what a crazy Clown World Honk Honk! The groups that tried to brown beat white goys are now standing next to muzzies on their side and saying maybe the white goys weren’t so bad after all…
You know what all this is on his part? And I’m not kidding either: he was probably bullied incessantly as a child.
Now that he has all this wealth and power he is using it.. Bullied children either become bullies or get over it and become stronger as adults. He’s in the former category..
Good observation.
Here’s the problem with this headline…….who decides what is “hate speech”? And what “governments” is he talking about. The wormy weasel, Zuck, is as evil as all the other Globalists….we’re surely going down the rabbit hole in America. Until these “monitors” of our speech are stopped…it’s only going to get worse.
This is a hard because every religion feels that they are gods chosen people and anyone who denies or disagrees is considered Hate Speech. How do you voice the opinion that you don’t like certain behaviors like gang rape, usury, blasphemy laws, religious bias, xenophobia, racial supremacy, stealing land in the name of their god, etc. etc. etc.
Religions like Muslim, Jews, Catholics don’t allow condemnation or have it written in their religion that at a future date they will rule the world and no one will ever be able to talk bad about them with out persecution or death. how do you square that with Peace? Unless Peace is mass murder and enslavement.
How does a religion that views all others as beasts of the field come to accept and love others as equals? Do all forms of religion need reformation?
Zuckerberg is not the solution, he’s the problem.
Is it him, his culture or identity? It seems that many Globalists and Technocrats come from one specific group of wandering people?
I’d like to believe that it’s only a small minority of them subverting western countries, but as of right now, the number of Jews calling out the subversion is still pretty small.
Gen Z is growing up fast. They don’t give a damn about political correctness or what anyone else thinks about them. They shaped their world view on the internet where one can extract the truth from the propaganda easily. They’re going to be pissed when they get exposed to how crappy their prospects are for a future as young adults.
Their anger and the whacked out commies on the left is going to potentially throw this country into open conflict.
Also, if the truth ever comes out about 9/11…..it’s gonna get ugly even faster.
It is so reassuring to wake in the morning knowing that Little Brother Zucky,the Emperor Xi,and their French puppet Macron have have protected me from hateful and stressful speech and expressions in all forms.
Facebook and its co-conspirators must immediately be reined in by executive action. This should have been done legislatively by the Republican majority in the two houses and exec branch, but again they did what they do best, sleep at the switch. Now we must act before the election cycle gets under way, or they will work in concert to railroad the election and steal America from the people.
We do not all comprehend what Mr. Zuckerberg is going to define as “hate speech.” We know he uses an excuse of “Community Standards,” but they are very ambiguous and not evenly applied.
Facebook needs policing. This must be done by people outside his influence, and unbiased. We see anti-Islam comments getting removed and the “friends” suspended, but any anti-Jewish comment is okay. They allow pictures of terrorists and their anti-Semitic comments, but complainst are always answered by “Please read the Community Standards” remark, or outright dismissal of an obviously hateful meme`.
Facebook needs no policing regarding speech outside of pornography and actual threats of violence.
Also, they (and web platforms in general) allow anti-Semitic comments from terrorists and Muslims because they support open borders invaders unconditionally before and after they take residence in western countries.
They generally do not tolerate criticism of Jewish/Zionist activities that promote open border policies by European whites. These valid criticisms are immediately labeled “racist” antisemetism and censored.
Conservatives are being blacklisted off conservative sites if they don’t fall in line and support Zionism. Try going to Breitbart and stating the clear influence Zionism has had in trying to start a full blown war with Syria and more recently Iran. You mention Zionism in more than a few posts and you’ll find your ip and discus account banned from their comments.
A few months ago you could go on Breitbart and most of the conservative comments were people calling out the Zionist influence on every pro-war article they ran. Go there today and the comment section is mostly zio-shills and boomer-idiot conservatives.
Even the so called alt-right websites are clearly just controlled opposition. I’m sure it’s the same on the left. Censorship is for sheep.
Anyone who asks for censorship has either an adversion to uncomfortable truths, dumber than a rock, or actually prefers the truth to be concealed.
Hey Zukkie, is tellin’ the truth about Islamist “hate speech” to you””
Every country that now censors speech they don’t want expressed is on the path to tyranny. In the UK, just verbally object to Islam and you find yourself in prison… not much different than what you’d expect in Venezuela or Cuba.