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Web giants to cooperate on removal of extremist content

reuters.com

15 points by reflexive 10 years ago · 8 comments

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hackuser 10 years ago

This can be used to censor any content, needless to say.

swayvil 10 years ago

Bigass world-spanning censorship engine. I can't think of anything to say that isn't totally obvious.

aussieguy123 10 years ago

Seems the method will rely on sharing file hashes. Should work in most cases but hashes would not be that difficult for a bad actor to change with some basic knowledge (I.e. terrorist uploader)

yostrovs 10 years ago

Not yet clear whether Marxist thought will be blocked as extremist.

  • grzm 10 years ago

    If you're referring to detox week, which explicitly supports flagging political submissions, you probably shouldn't be surprised if it does when you specifically call it out as Marxist.

__derek__ 10 years ago

I don't feel comfortable flagging it because I disagree with the reasoning behind the policy, but isn't this political?[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

yarou 10 years ago

A big win for virtue signalers, champagne socialists, and pseudointellectuals everywhere.

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