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Web giants to cooperate on removal of extremist content

reuters.com

15 points by reflexive 9 years ago · 8 comments

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hackuser 9 years ago

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

swayvil 9 years ago

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

aussieguy123 9 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 9 years ago

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

  • grzm 9 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__ 9 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 9 years ago

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

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