Aug. 9, 2018 - Brother Nathanael
05:43
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| Making headlines on the Jewish-owned New York Times is every journalist's dream. | |
| But for Alex Jones, it's all trial and tribulation. | |
| Citing the removal of Infowars programming from major social media, the Times jabbed Jones as a trafficker in unfounded conspiracy theories marred with hate speech. | |
| But why unfounded? | |
| Are some conspiracy theories actually founded on evidence? | |
| After all, the term conspiracy theory is said to be invented by the CIA so as to prevent disbelief of big-gov narrations. | |
| But there's a new kid on the block. | |
| Hate speech! | |
| ADL and the University of California at Berkeley's D-Lab have been working to develop a new approach to tackle online hate using the latest methods. | |
| The goal of the Online Hate Index is to help tech platforms better understand the growing amount of hate on social media. | |
| and to use that information to address the problem. | |
| By combining artificial intelligence and machine learning with social science, the online hate index will ultimately uncover and identify trends and patterns in hate speech across different platforms. | |
| We've just completed our first phase of research and we found that the machine learning model identified hate speech accurately between 78 and 85 percent of the time. | |
| In the next phase of our project, We will look at specific targeted populations in a more detailed manner. | |
| We'll examine content on multiple social media sites. | |
| And we'll identify strategies to deploy the model more broadly. | |
| While there's still a long way to go with artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions, we believe the Online Hate Index will help tech companies better understand the extent of hateful content on their platforms by creating community-based definitions of hate speech. | |
| Now, are tech giants using this hate speech terminology to blur the distinction between legitimate opinion and actual libel? | |
| It sure stumps Zuckerberg. | |
| Can you define hate speech? | |
| Senator, I think that this is a really hard... | |
| Question. And I think it's one of the reasons why we struggle with it. | |
| For months, and really for years, the tech companies have been reluctant to weigh in on a lot of these controversial speech issues. | |
| But it appears, after months of criticism, the tech companies have finally said, in the case of Alex Jones, that enough is enough. | |
| Nah. Enough is enough is a violation of the entire at-large community standards, not the standards of a tiny coterie of cyber-censors. | |
| Social media should be on par with public telecommunication companies. | |
| They don't decide if you're politically correct before providing services. | |
| Social media should be under the same constraints. | |
| Not by BigGov, but by Internet users who expect a free flow of information. | |
| Jones had millions of viewers. | |
| Why not account for their consent? | |
| Doesn't their voice count too? | |
| How about 2.3 million of them? | |
| I represent Parkland, Florida, and in this discussion of social media, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the savage attacks on the student survivors of Stoneman Douglas. | |
| One of the most virulent strains of these attacks was that the students didn't survive a school shooting, that they were crisis actors, that they were planted by some mysterious cabal to finally get Congress to do something about gun violence. | |
| And in the weeks after the shooting, Alex Jones' YouTube channel posted a video that was seen by 2.3 million subscribers, alleging that these were merely actors and not real students. | |
| That's Jones' opinion, right or wrong? | |
| Wacky or tacky, he should still have his say. | |
| And we'll decide if he's a quack. | |
| For with no legal definition of hate speech, cyber censors decide what speech they hate others to hear, while conspiracy theorists like Jones become anyone going off the prescriptive grid. | |
| After all, Jones refused to tout the 9-11 script. | |
| Is there only a kosher side of the playbook? | |
| Where were you on September 11th? | |
| You know, I was home. | |
| And so that particular morning, because I have light-colored hair and fair skin, and I'm an annuity to the dermatologist, my wife, God bless her, had made an appointment for me at the doctor. | |
| Kind of iffy, if you ask me. | |
| So, why not let Jones have his say, even if he's kind of iffy? | |
| Alex Jones is the Internet's most notorious conspiracy theorist, and with his site Infowars, he's peddled a number of dark and bizarre conspiracy theories. | |
| Sandy Hook, it's got inside job written all over it. | |
| You want us to cover Pizzagate? We have covered it. | |
| We are covering it. And all I know is, God help us, we're in the hands of Pure Evil. | |
| Don't like what you hear? Don't want others to hear it? | |
| Call it dark and bizarre, and voila, the pinky on the censorship key hits delete. | |
| Like the kickoff of the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution, Jones got guillotined right smack in the middle of Cyberspace Square. | |
| And you, Mr. | |
| and Mrs. Journalist, even if you write for the New York Times, might just be next. | |
| Isn't it time for an alternative Internet infrastructure? | |
| You better believe it. |
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