Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have “signed up” to a new European Union (EU) “Code of Conduct”, pledging to help censor and “criminalise” perceived “illegal online hate speech” and “promot[e] independent counter-narratives” that the EU favors. The Code, which has been branded “Orwellian” by Members of the European Parliament, is reproduced in full below by Breitbart London for the benefit of our readers. Facebook, Microsoft [Microsoft-hosted consumer services, as relevant], Twitter and YouTube (hereinafter “the IT Companies”) – also involved in the EU Internet Forum – share, together with other platforms and social media companies, a collective responsibility and pride in promoting and facilitating freedom of expression throughout the online world; The IT Companies also share the European Commission’s and EU Member States’ commitment to tackle illegal hate speech online. Illegal hate speech, as defined by the Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law and national laws transposing it, means all conduct publicly inciting to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. The IT Companies and the European Commission also
Month: May 2016
Donald Trump on Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Death: ‘They Probably Had No Choice’
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump commented on the controversy over a gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a toddler fell into its cage.
Trump Calls ABC Reporter a ‘Sleaze’
Tuesday at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City, while explaining his contributions to veterans’ charities, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump got into several heated exchanges with the press even calling one of the reporters a “sleaze.” Trump said, “What I don’t want is when I raise millions of dollars, have people say– like this sleazy guy right over here from ABC, he’s a sleaze in my book.” ABC’s Tom Llamas asked, “Why am I a sleaze?” Trump answered, “You’re a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
AZ Health Officials Confirm 11 Cases of Measles Stemming from Immigrant Detention Facility
An outbreak of measles that began at an immigrant detention facility in Eloy, Arizona has grown to eleven confirmed cases, according to state health officials.
WATCH: Adele Stops Concert to Scold Fan for Filming Her Performance
Pop superstar Adele paused her performance Sunday night at the Arena di Verona in Verona, Italy to scold an audience member for filming the concert.
North Korea Stages Fourth Failed Missile Launch While Trying to Warm Up to China
The North Korean government conducted its fourth failed launch of a medium-range Musudan missile on Monday morning local time, a sign experts are interpreting as indicating increased desperation on the part of the Kim Jong-un regime in the midst of so…
Eric Holder: Edward Snowden Performed a ‘Public Service’
Former Attorney General Eric Holder sent a decidedly mixed message on host David Axelrod’s podcast by saying that fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden “harmed American interests” by revealing government secrets – even putting the lives of American agents at risk! – but saluting him for performing a “public service” anyway.
UK Scrambles To Stop Migrants Crossing English Channel Again
(REUTERS) – Britain is investing in extra patrol boats and surveillance to try to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. Twenty people, including 18 Albanians, were rescued from the Channel over the weekend after their inflatable boat started taking on water. Last year, extra fencing, cameras and police were deployed at the French terminal of the channel tunnel after passenger and freight services were severely delayed by migrants trying to stow away to Britain. “We have taken measures at Calais which have improved the situation there: it is clear that people are now trying different routes and we will look to cut those off,” Cameron’s spokesman said. “We take every necessary action to protect our border security and will continue to do so.” The government has said the Border Force, which currently has three vessels, will get extra patrol boats to help tackle smuggling of weapons, drugs and migrants. The first batch will be in place in the coming months, it said, but declined to specify how many boats that would include. Border Force officers have been given extra powers to stop, board, divert and detain vessels and make arrests,
Not The Onion: CNN Asks ‘Would Donald Trump Have Killed the Gorilla?’
New York (CNN) Donald Trump said Tuesday that a Cincinnati zoo “probably had no choice” but to kill a gorilla after a young boy had entered his enclosure.
Paris Plans To Build Migrant Camp In North Of French Capital
(REUTERS) – Municipal authorities in Paris plan to build a camp to house several hundred refugees in the French capital, the mayor said on Tuesday, criticising the dire living conditions for migrants who have fled to Europe. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said city services were looking for a site in the north of the city and that the camp could be built within two months. Hidalgo cited as a model a migrant camp made up of modular cabins housing about 2,500 people in Grand-Synthe on the northern French coast. Opened in March, that camp is run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres. “We cannot accept any longer the humanitarian situation, the sanitary situation that migrants have to put up with,” Hidalgo told reporters, without elaborating. It would be the first refugee camp in the Paris area. France has been much less affected by the migrant crisis than, for example, neighbouring Germany, which has taken in more than a million migrants, many fleeing war in Syria and Iraq, since last summer. However, thousands have transited France to reach the Channel in the hope of crossing to Britain. Some 3,900 migrants currently live in squalid conditions in a camp outside the port