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originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: Phage
" You think a huge disaster would be a good thing. I don't. "
Nature has a way of Correcting it's Mistakes . Survival of the Fittest you know ..........
originally posted by: openminded2011
I think we need to start decrying hate speech on the web against ANY group, black, white, Jewish, Muslim, to the degree that some kind of hate speech legislation is needed to tone down the rhetoric from the almost rabid levels it is reaching. We need to say as a society that we are not going to tolerate hateful speech towards ANYONE regardless of religion or skin color. That's the only way to start to reverse this.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: openminded2011
I think we need to start decrying hate speech on the web against ANY group, black, white, Jewish, Muslim, to the degree that some kind of hate speech legislation is needed to tone down the rhetoric from the almost rabid levels it is reaching. We need to say as a society that we are not going to tolerate hateful speech towards ANYONE regardless of religion or skin color. That's the only way to start to reverse this.
I don't disagree with your point but there is some rather big flaws in it all.
1. Who determines what is hate speech? Sounds a lot like Fahrenheit 451 to me...
2. Much of the extremism you see today is fed by internet algorithms and friend/foe AI...
Here is how it works. 30 years ago an extremist group would put fliers on doors in a very localized and limited attempt to garner support, but today they have the world open to them. Not only that, but lets say you are a liberal moderate and you do some searches in Google. Over a period of time Google will learn what you like and feed you more and more slowly pushing you farther down the liberal path than what you started as. You soon get to a point that when you search for anything the top 10,000 topics are all liberal with "moderate" long gone. Then you have friend/foe AI that further defines what you see by only putting friendly Liberal topics and foe Conservative topics in front of you. You type in something Conservative and the top 10,000 topics are all against and then you type in something liberal and the top 10,000 topics are all in heavy support.
This is how you take a generic_01 moderate and turn them into a extremist, terrorist, anarchist etc. etc. So back to your point, "we need to start decrying hate speech " who is "we" when everyone reading the hate speech has been pushed there by algorithms and friend/foe AI to accept it as a topic they should agree with.
originally posted by: mekhanics
a reply to: LookingAtMars
The conservatives are having a bad feel day. LMAO!
The first thing you had in mind was a Muslim.
Here's your terrorist.
originally posted by: info393
a reply to: LookingAtMars
That would be a random thing for them to do, taking their cell phones wont really accomplish much.