New [Microsoft] resources to report hate speech, request content reinstatement

Microsoft ^ | 26 August 2016 | Jacqueline Beauchere - Microsoft Chief Online Safety Officer

[HLPhat]

Microsoft is committed to creating safe online communities where our customers can learn, play, grow and interact without the threat of violence or hatred. That’s why for many years we’ve sought to protect our customers by prohibiting hate speech and removing such content from our hosted consumer services. While neither our principles nor our policies are changing, we are refining some of our processes to make it easier for customers to report hate speech. We’re also simplifying requests to reinstate content that customers feel was removed in error.

Today we’re announcing a new dedicated web form for reporting hate speech on our hosted consumer services, and a separate web form for requests to reconsider and reinstate content.

[bIlluminati]

Microsoft Stasi. Informants vill be revarded.

[tomkat]

             

[Lazamataz]

The rush to become the Soviet Union is truly something to behold.

[Enlightened1]

Whatever happened to

“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will protect your right to say it”?

Do not buy Microsoft products when they attack your first Amendment right.

[relictele]

Microsoft is committed to creating safe online communities where our customers can learn, play, grow and interact without the threat of violence or hatred.

Here's an idea for the increasingly Orwellian Microsoft: how about providing knowledgeable, responsive and effective tech support for your very expensive products and let adults be adults?

Farming it out to 'Microsoft MVPs' isn't cutting it. Invariably they link to a FAQ or fall back on time-consuming and ultimately futile 'fixes' such as the old uninstall/install routine. When their advice fails to correct the problem - which is usually the outcome - they simply shrug their shoulders and mysteriously stop responding to threads. The user facing downtime, loss of data, etc. has now wasted hours, even days, and is no closer to a fix.

[HLPhat]

Don’t worry Putin’s new “conservatism” will save us. /s

[Rapscallion]

Microsoft is committed to creating safe online communities where our customers can learn, play, grow and interact without the threat of violence or hatred.

Or surveillance?

Propaganda from the Microsoft Collective.

[DoughtyOne]

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[HLPhat]

>>Whatever happened to “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will protect your right to say it”?

Good question!

It seems to be in the "cultural" circular file along with the concept that asking "But - who's going to pay for the train" - is certainly no more "political", or less acceptable, than putting up a link on the MarxBank intraweb telling people to go "Vote for the Train".

[HLPhat]

>>Or surveillance?

“All you MSIL baseclass are belong to us. Ha Ha Ha.”

[WENDLE]

Hate speech is any opinion other than theirs ( communism).

[WENDLE]

What is “HATE” speech? Please define fully and completely so we can apply fool proof rules!!

[HLPhat]

>>What is “HATE” speech?

Sharing the observation that Sexual Dimorphism was created by natural selection because the genetic exchange between Male and Female increases fitness of species.

Asking who will pay for the train after the termite mound builders "vote" for it.

Saying 2+2=4

Hateful (undiplomatic) stuff like that.  The Horror!

[angry elephant]

What is “HATE” speech? Please define fully and completely so we can apply fool proof rules!!

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What is a Microsoft hosted service? Do we need to start reading Free Republic on Google — horror of horrors - or on one of the other browsers instead of IE? Should we change our email accounts to use Thunderbird?

How many of us does Microsoft want to dump?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Microsoft doesn’t own the dark net.

Anonymity is the best safety there is.

[TexasGator]

Not a first amendment issue.

[tomkat]

Here's something for the MS pussies to ponder:

I HATE ALL jihadi and blm and communist vermin AND wish there was a method to exterminate them at the push of a button, a button which I would cheerfully volunteer to push.

If there were in fact such a method, but the price for using it was one's life, I would bid y'all adieu, put on a big smile, and mash that bastard !

So in other words > FUverymuchMS

[Enlightened1]

The University is a public place.... and it’s not private.

If that’s what you are implying. It’s 100% violation of the 1st Amendment!

[HLPhat]

Be interesting to see how this plays out as MS increasingly markets / targets its Operating Systems as merely a front-end mechanism to provide access to “the cloud”.

Imagine all the people.... having the Micro(AI)Postman reading their keystrokes and deciding whether the resulting thought-crimes warrant further attention from the “Department of Internet Safety”.

It isn’t hard if you try.