Facebook pledges to combat racism on German platform

Politically correct censorship. I bet that the scrupulous censorship of any criticism of Merkels suicidal asylum policy does not at all apply to vicious verbal attacks on Israel and conservative commentators.

"Many users say that when they complain to Facebook about offensive posts, the network often responds that after a review the post does not violate its community standards."

And that's enough. Time for some people to realize that their self-esteem is not the responsibility of others and that "racism" and/or "bigotry" does not equal "ideas I don't approve of."

I guess it'll be "racist hate speech" or "xenophobic" to show pictures of young male Syrian "refugees" waving ISIS flags while fighting with German police then.

Political correctness is fatally stupid. The best way to stop is to never start, kids.

Yeah, political correctness gone mad.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=99s19HBs-6A

"Yeah, political correctness gone mad. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=99s19HBs-6A"

Whether by design or by accident, this post and link is one of the most intellectually dishonest posts I have ever seen on a JapanToday board. Read the article, then watch the YouTube clip and you will shake your head at the thought process of some people.

I am all for a Ban of the HATE SPEECH worldwide. Who needs HATE ? Who need people spitting their HATE ? I am not for the govt or a corporation deciding about what is HATE or not thought... since they are all biased toward propaganda control and greed, no political, only sociologist, academics and philosophers.

Racism is one of the world's major issue and always a serious problem in every country. It still happens everywhere. But racism is only a symptom and not the disease itself because behind the effect is the cause. It's human nature because human beings are selfish and dislikes anything that is much different than then self. The only solution is for the nature to change. No one is born hating another person. People learn to hate and if they learn to hate they can be taught to love. For love come naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Humanity has to learn to unlearn hatred, anger, and prejudice, through a real change of heart and learn to respect and embrace difference

I am all for a Ban of the HATE SPEECH worldwide.

Okay, so how do you define hate speech? I'll tell you how it will be - no wait, how it actually is defined in the U.S.

In the U.S., any opinion that counters the politically-correct version of reality as defined by Leftists - who run almost the entire education system and most of the media - meets the criteria for "hate speech". Even if there is no hate in it, which is usually the case, and often even before hearing that that opinion, just because it comes from a person or group that disagrees with the politically-correct Left.

For example, the TEA Party. Can any critic (or any "progressive" JT poster) quote any TEA Party platform or principle? No, they can only repeat a satire they saw on Comedy Central. But they're so sure that the TEA Party spews hate speech! They don't even know that the TEA in TEA Party stands for Taxed Enough Already. The sad part is such "progressives" feel no shame in hating something while simultaneously refusing to learn anything about it.

since they are all biased toward propaganda control and greed, no political, only sociologist, academics and philosophers.

Have you stepped on a college campus in the U.S.? American universities are notorious for radical-Leftist academics who control their students and spread their propaganda through grades. Write a thorough-researched paper that disagrees with the professor's political views? Get flunked. Write a hack piece plagiarized from the internet that agrees with the professor's political views? Get your degree. Oh, and that'll be $280,000, please.

Better to let people have free speech. Criticism is necessary for a society to develop. And if people can't express themselves, it's harder to figure out who the real haters are.