[Iron Munro]

Is it Hate Speech to refer to King Obama as “That Doofus, Commie, Muslim Homo”?

[jsanders2001]

But will it be able to identify leftist schemes?... lying to infidels, use of PC to advance political agendas, voter registration fraud attempts, etc.../s

[G Larry]

So...will they shut down FR or just arrest us all?

...ya...I know....both!

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ve been referred to as a “bitter clinger”.Sounds like hate speech to me!

[servantboy777]

Negro’ pendaho en la casa blanco.

[Lets Roll NOW]

When the government can give a million dollars to an Indiana professor to search the internet for right wing hate speech you know they have to much power. When will the people stand up and fight this tyranny?

[Paladin2]

Check their Statist Privilege.

[IYAS9YAS]

"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

[dontreadthis]

[Steve_Seattle]

"In a new blog post, Menczer maintained that the database is not meant to suppress free speech and does not track "hate speech."

Then what's it's purpose, professor?

[ForYourChildren]

The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”

The university has received $919,917 so far for the project.

http://truthy.indiana.edu/about
http://truthy.indiana.edu/

[ForYourChildren]

“Truthy” claims to be non-partisan. However, the project’s lead investigator Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority.

[SunkenCiv]

> The Indiana professor who is leading the project, Filippo Menczer, had previously identified a list of hashtags that he believed fell under the categories of “far right” and “polarizing.”

The terms “far right” and “polarizing” are hate speech.

[UCANSEE2]

"Fed Gov’t Funds ‘Truthy’ Database to Monitor Hate Speech, Suspicious Memes..."

And people who call Obama a cartoon character.

[UCANSEE2]

“... had previously identified a list of hashtags that he believed fell under the categories of “far right” and “polarizing.”

What, No hashtags for #far-left ?

[Steve_Seattle]

Menczer, the project lead, appears to be a blatant liar. The university's own project description, in the section titled "Research Objectives", states that that the project will " . . . detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution." Yet, in a critique of a Fox News report in the project, he says that, "Truthy is not intended and is not capable to determine whether a statement constitutes 'misinformation'". If not, then why does the project description say it will do just that?

Also, I would like to know how the professor and his associates define "social pollution." That sounds like a very subjective and very arbitrary concept. It sounds like crap science.

[sten]

somebody’s kid got a juicy contract

seriously, this is a weekend project. hook to the various feeds, push them thru a parser, index/score the item based on a phrase database rating the item on a multitude of categories, then notify associated email if the score exceeds a threshold, also specified in the database.

[dfwgator]

We can’t go on together
With suspicious memes
And we can’t build our dreams
On suspicious memes