Henceforth only far-Left and pro-jihad views will be allowed. My latest in FrontPage:
Could it soon be illegal to oppose jihad terror on the Internet?
AP reported that “the European Union reached an agreement Tuesday with some of the world’s biggest social media firms, including Facebook and Twitter, on ways to combat the spread of hate speech online.”
Not only Facebook and Twitter, but also YouTube and Microsoft, “have committed to ‘quickly and efficiently’ tackle illegal hate speech directed against anyone over issues of race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. The sites have often been used by terrorist organizations to relay messages and entice hatred against certain individuals or groups.”
Vera Jourova, whom AP identifies as “the EU commissioner responsible for justice, consumers and gender equality,” explained: “The internet is a place for free speech, not hate speech.” She added that the new rules would “ensure that public incitement to violence to hatred has ‘no place online.’” But incitement to violence isn’t all that the social media giants are planning to stamp out: Karen White, Twitter’s European head of public policy, declared: “We remain committed to letting the Tweets flow. However, there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate.”
The problem with both Jourova’s and White’s statements is that they assume that “hate speech” is an entity that can be identified objectively, when actually it is a subjective judgment based on one’s own political preconceptions. And given the years-long insistence from Leftists and Islamic supremacists that any honest discussion of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism constitutes “hate speech,” these new rules could mean the end of opposition to jihad terror on the Internet.
Consider, for example, what Twitter does not consider to be “hate speech.” A Muslim named Obaid Karki, @stsheetrock on Twitter, who runs a website headed “Obaid Karki St.Sheetrock’s Painfulpolitics Offensive Comedy Hepcat” and another called is called “Suicide Bombers Magazine” posted this on one of them last Sunday: “Robert Spencer mustn’t [be] featured but lynched from his scrotum along with Zionists scumbags, Pamela Geller, Pat Condell, Daniel Pipes, Debbie Schlussel and JIHADWATCH Jackass duo Baron Bodissey & Geert Wilders for inspiring Anders Behring Breivik to [kill] innocent students in 2011.”
Neither Bodissey or Wilders actually run Jihad Watch – I do — and I didn’t inspire Breivik to do anything, but what is interesting about Karki’s loony message is that he posted this call for me and others to be lynched on Twitter.
Twitter supposedly has a policy against death threats. “The Twitter Rules” say: “Violent threats (direct or indirect): You may not make threats of violence or promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism.” I therefore duly reported this one – but as of this writing, it has not been taken down (in fact, Karki posted it along with variants of it several times). I reported Karki’s tweet (which he republished on Twitter several times), and on Monday received this message from Twitter: “Thank you for letting us know about your issue. We’ve investigated the account and reported Tweets for violent threats and abusive behavior, and have found that it’s currently not violating the Twitter Rules (https://twitter.com/rules).”
This has happened before. On May 12, 2014, Karki tweeted this: “Robert Spencer must be arrested and lynched along the Zionists Dumbasses Daniel Pipes, Geert Wilders and JIHADWATCH …” And here’s another Karki tweet from September 18, 2013: “Robert Spencer must be shot head not only for comparing Alnoor 24:35 to Corinthians 11:14-15 satanically but for…”
Calling for me to be lynched and shot in the head – that’s not “hate speech” as far as Twitter is concerned. Meanwhile, the antipathy of both Twitter and Facebook to conservatives is well established. It’s therefore a very real question: will our social media masters use their new censorship initiative to shut down foes of jihad terror, while allowing jihadis and their sympathizers to speak freely?
It could happen. In some ways it is already happening: the free speech news site Epoch Times reported last March that “while Twitter says it is making strong efforts to shut down terrorist accounts, activists say that not only is the microblogging company not taking down the accounts that matter, but it has even been shutting down accounts of users trying to report terrorists.”
The idea that Vera Jourova enunciated, that hate speech is not free speech, is a dangerous one that paves the way for tyranny. One man’s “hate speech” is another man’s lone voice crying out against oppression and injustice. If “hate speech” is removed from the Internet and eventually criminalized, the foremost protection against tyranny will have been removed, and free society effectively ended. If Facebook and Twitter continue kneecapping voices on the Right and allowing death threats to remain online if they’re directed against people the Left hates, Leftists will have gone a long way toward achieving what they’ve been working toward for a long time: the death of dissent, and the beginnings of an authoritarian society.
And if any of the naïve and unthinking among them awaken to what they’ve done, it will be too late. Maybe as early as 24 hours from now.

CrossWare says
Congratulations Mark Zuckerberg. From a simple geek you managed to grow into a war criminal. As for Twitter (Saudi main investor) obviously not getting anything better. Microsoft we knew it was evil. Let’s see how Google handles its own slogan: “Don’t be evil!”
Custos Custodum says
Let the market decide. The Russian “Facebook” is freely available at VK.COM.
Presumably, VK does not feed intimate user information to U.S. Government agencies in real time.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Selective enforcement of rules, guidelines and laws is a hallmark of fascism and totalitarianism.
SBJ says
Agreed. I see Europe quickly becoming what she was, shortly before WW II.
The EU needs to go the way of the dodo bird. Countries need to re-secure their sovereign rights. This USA backed and promoted union will decidedly get worse. Europe has many crises, Islamic invasion, USA/Nato led war, with Russia/China, whereby another generation or 2 will die needlessly. Massive debt due to invasion, Never mind the loss of civil liberties the Europeans have enjoyed.
David says
Truth is hate speech/
linnte says
“A clear distinction between freedom of expression and CONDUCT (my emphasis) that incites violence and hate”. Conduct is a physical action like pinching someone. Speaking is not conduct when “out there on the ethereal internet”. Speaking could be conduct if a face to face is happening. But I should be able to sit on the steps of any public place and speak anything I choose. There is no conduct happening in the wires and satellites that project internet words. In fact, the internet is the perfect place for ANY speech be it hateful or loving. No one gets punched in the nose on the internet. Like choosing to take some days “off” from JW, it is up to the individual to discern what goes into ones mind and therefore how I react physically. It is up to me to guard my mind from hate and love, not the government.
Couldn’t stand it! This and the previous article like it, by Mr. Spencer has jarred me back to commenting! I posted the previous article about that whacked out Muslim who wants to see him lynched on Facebook. So far it is still there. It amazes me how someone could listen to Robert, watch him speak, hear his words, laugh at his jokes and conclude he is hateful. Even the way he delivers his words in debate is absolutely non confrontational!
We are in a spiritual war for freedom! I missed you all. ?
Mike says
Hate speech? What is hate speech? There’s either free speech or there is not—hate speech is simply speech control to silence those in opposition to a tyrannical agenda. The 1A and free speech is to protect the truth and uncomfortable speech and to protect the freedom of conscience as well. Once government deems certain speech off limits, that is the end of free speech and beginning of total tyranny. Without free speech, opposition to tyranny will be silenced.
Donna says
This just proves the point again and again that social media – Twitter, Facebook, etc – are NOT Public platforms but rather very large, heavily marketed, private message boards. They can do what they want with their data, altho I do think it is a crime to misrepresent themselves as Public, when they really are not.
Jerry says
Hate speech = speech I don’t agree with, at least as it pertains to muslims and their fascist faith. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, if they’re “offended” then ban it. But if this is the direction the world is going then I gotta ask, are they going to apply the same standard to muslims and their faith? Now that’s hate speech, islam is. They threaten us with fascism and murder but that’s deemed acceptable political speech. Then when we counter with rational and moral objections to the threat we’re branded as haters and islamophobes. It’s like the world has gone S&M for islam. I can’t believe our traitors don’t understand the threat, what’s their motive? Do they love evil? are they attracted to islam’s rape of women and children, the murderous bigotry? the barbaric control over others?
Not every danger in life is a mortal threat, this is true. But it behooves us to recognize the true nature of islam and the threat muslims pose to our nation and freedoms. A hundred muslims can’t destroy our country, but they can kill many. Ten thousand can’t destroy our country but they can severely terrorize us. But millions of muslims can bring us down for good. It’s not bigotry to say this, it’s acknowledging the sociological threat that muslims bring to our doorstep. We see it in the Middle East and now in Europe, and we’re next. I see nothing hateful or bigoted about admitting the truth about islam’s supremacist agenda and the jihad terror it’s causing. I see nothing to be gained by ignoring reality.
Angemon says
This is rubbish based on the rubbish idea that policing language changes minds. If I’m a critic of the current European directives concerning “Syrian” “refugees” and I’m banned from Twitter or Facebook I won’t stop being a critic of the current European directives concerning “Syrian” “refugees”, I’ll just be a critic of the current European directives concerning “Syrian” “refugees” that’s not on Twitter or Facebook. And if enough people leave social media sites – all while letting them know that they’re leaving them because of their policies regarding freedom of speech – they’ll back down.
Jerry says
This is rubbish based on the rubbish idea that policing language changes minds.
That’s a key point worth making. You can’t change minds by banning the forum. If anything it will make things more violent and dangerous. At least on the internet people have a chance to express, vent, and discuss. Without that candid opportunity to deal with the important issues the anger and frustration only builds. And we know what’s really going on here, they aren’t trying to ban “hate speech.” They think they can quash our reasoned and moral objections to islam’s retarded hatefulness. I shouldn’t have to feel bad for stating the ugly truth, I didn’t invent islam nor do I support it. I’m simply expressing my contempt and reasoned objections for an ideology that has proven itself to be as evil as Nazism. If I throw in an occasional “F*ck,” or “damn” in my views it’s no worse than “kill the infidel.” The evidence for islam’s criminality is in black and white, and red too–lot’s of RED.
Islam is an evil threat to our nation and peace. And who is it that keeps that thing alive? MUSLIMS, that’s who.
RM says
T-shirt boy can only “control” speech if you use his platform. Boycott Fakebook and take away T-shirt boys power. I havent used Fakebook in over 6 years for any reason and my world has never collapsed. Similarly I have NEVER had a Twitter account and likely never will. Twitter users have destroyed proper use of grammar and punctuation and has stupified children, teens and young adults. Social media although helpful in some instances has become a curse on society.
Jay Boo says
It is a good thing for the shameless of the extreme Left that Muhammad called his (slave-trade parade) of sex slaves a ‘religion’ otherwise, they would have much more difficulty slithering like snakes around the obvious truth and Islam’s daily disgrace.
SBJ says
The EU is quickly becoming pre-WWII. Fascist.Abetted by her friend the USA.
jewdog says
I hate Twitter, and I hate Facebook. So there.
Jerry says
I bet I hate them more than you.
Guest says
Is it hate speech or is it too true for the Internet?
salim says
I hate to allow myself to believe in conspiracies, but what makes all those people in power to be so keen to defend the most evil ideology, which is Islam?
linnte says
That’s the problem. No one knows for sure WHY Western countries are encouraging this slinky takeover of our freedoms. Being a conspiracy theorists myself, I believe it is being used to bring in a One World Order which will be governed in Brussels. If laws are changed to accommodate Islam, and it is accepted by non Muslims, they Order is almost set. Get the people (non Muslims) under control using refugees as the army. Get the people terrified of Muslims then come in on a Governmental White Horse and rescue every one. The people will be eternally grateful and submit to the New World Order. Divide and conquer.
salim says
In general I agree, time will tell about the details. One thing is sure: what is happening is not a result of mistakes; even the most idiots can see the scale of catastrophe.
Peggy says
I’ve always said that it’s not leack of education or a mistake but deliberate. This was planned a long time ago and now the masks are off. Still, a lot of people cannot see the danger.
Santa Voorhees says
“Not only Facebook and Twitter, but also YouTube and Microsoft, “have committed to ‘quickly and efficiently’ tackle illegal hate speech directed against anyone over issues of race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.”
By that logic, then even muslims who advocate genocidal speech against jews or all non-muslims must be taken down.
But as evidence suggests, that won’t happen.
What idiots…. I hope people will get angry and then rise up against this bullshit.
We have plenty of evidence on our side.
Jack Holan says
Robert Spenser:
Europe and the American based Companies owned by Americans are denying 300mm Americans their Civil Rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights Amendment 1. Vera you are flat out wrong and showing ignorance of the American legal system and President Obama is counting on Our ignorance of SCOTUS Rulings over 200 years. Remember he thinks We the People are stupid Ignoramuses. Consistently over the years the Courts have sided on the side of the most vile Organizations to spew the venomous Hate Speech since not ALL Americans concur that it is Hate Speech. The American Bund held their marches and support for the Aryan Race and denigration of Non-Whites and Jews. They held a Mega Meeting and filled Madison Square Garden. The KKK managed to bring 100,000 Members to the Streets of DC and march in lock step through the streets their White Sheets. The ACLU in the 1970s acted on behalf of NAZI Lincoln Rockwell so that he could hold a demonstration in Primarily Jewish Skokie Illinois and did succeed in Court to affirm his Constitutional Rights. Already, with these Hate Speech Rule coming out of Europe BDS will not be affected. They have consistently called for the demolishment of ALL Jewish Settlements since the beginning of 1948. Essentially they are promoting the demise of the Jewish State of Israel and this not HATE SPEECH. Please explain how this not hate speech the death or forceful removal of 7mm Jews from Israel Vera? I there is an explanation Zuckerberg that would horrify you Ancestors SPEAK UP! We deserve an answer. I know it naive to believe that People will stop using your platforms. I sure you will now begin to face competition that will grow over time earning some of your market share. I pray some Non-Profit Judicial Watch file a friend of the Court Brief with DOJ regarding the blatant end run around the Constitution and denial of American Civil Rights. It would be the same as your Firms, ignoring a country using slaves (there are a few out there doing this) you did business with them anyways (you probably do knowingly or not) Would this scenario be acceptable to you breaking the Amendment ending slavery. So whats the difference? The End Justify the Means (Good Marxist Dictum). No you are playing G-d deciding what Hate What isn’t and Shouldn’t be into this YOU are violating our Rights. I wonder if a monetary settlement would cost you Facebook?
Custos Custodum says
Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph
eagle says
So whenever you speak the truth about the Muslim culture, this is hate speech? The truth is the Muslim culture is not worthy of the toilet paper that has the Quran written on it to wipe my Butt. God Bless America when the Muslim culture leaves America.
Peggy says
Quran wasn’t written on toilet paper becaue they don’t have toilet paper.
R Cole says
They should have left eh Berlin Wall up!!
The real question is why now?
What’s with the EU’s sudden concern about tyranny?
It has got Merkel written all over it.
Migrants.
They know they can’t control the migrants – they are raping women – attacking people.
Look at Sweden – it did not become the rape capital of the world bar one – from these migrants – this is an ongoing issue with the migrants they have already got.
The question is how do you get Muslims to settle down – where there is not the Islamic law in place?
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The EU is gearing up for propaganda.
Look at the Swedish police rape report. Although it does at long last acknowledge that the majority were committed by Muslim migrants – it places more of the onus on the women and underage girls for the rapes – and suggests these Muslim men don’t quite know what they are doing when they rape.
There was a British girl recently vacationing in Spain she was raped by an illegal North African migrant who slashed her face and blinded her in one eye. A German girl was raped [multiple times] and one of the guys spat in her face.
But these Muslim men don’t know what they are doing!!
They rape the western women and next you see him with his wife in a burqa or head to toe black garment.
It could be more than – the increased incidents of sexual assaults and criminality of the no-go areas – but the likelihood of terrorism that is worries them more.
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The Stasi
A few months ago there was a report which said Obama has allied with the South Poverty Law Center to go after “hate groups”. Which is exact what Merkel has done – she got a former Stasi agent – turned “anti-racism” campaigner [who shares Merkels views on mass migration] to look for “hateful” posts on the internet. My thoughts were Obama was thinking about bringing in Syrian refugees – and was expecting a lot of opposition. While in Germany critics of Merkel’s migrant policy could be arrested for so-called ‘hate-speech’ – Obama’s aim would have been to use SPLC to name and shame – as free speech is a constitutional right..
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A Free & Democratic Society
They keep telling us we live in a democracy – and opposition is fine – but then they change the opposition. You can see the Scrooge-like statisticians – late night going over the numbers – that say the masses are not paying attention to the controlled or politically correct media. So they have to in effect licence – the new media – like the social media and video channels people do pay attention to.
Social media is like the new backstreet playhouse or theater, where unfavorable politics of the day could be mocked. Or the tavern or workmen’s clubs where leaflets describing failed government policies [read: Merkel’s mad migrant policy] would have been handed out. The hate speech of the day!!
Rather than addressing peoples’ concerns they seek to suppress them.
Funny how these repressive measures don’t hold up for very long. A little like hand held sparklers!
People look to these blogs and online videos because people don’t believe they will get the complete picture from the news media – so if Facebook appears to be encroaching too far on people’s freedoms – don’t care what Faustian deal they have signed – as far as facebook goes – kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall!!
Slavery is simply not on the cards!!
Dennis says
Islams goal is to take over the world. How can anyone deny that.
billybob says
I suppose Muhammad cartoons will no longer be permitted now.
Gail says
“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
sidney penny says
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/cal-poly-free-speech-under-attack-in-academia
Watch the last 10 minutes especially the girl who says hate speech is not free speech.
Watch how Robert Spencer demolishes her very calmly and logically.
Mark says
Censoring the internet started years back using Pone sites as the reason now it’s Hate. The net was fine for the people using it at the time but Gov. seen it fit to Not make a net with in the net for kids no nor just letting people felting it at home would do. To control the Governments need to simply take over slowly rule by rule and now we have a kill switch in the White House for the hole Internet. Control what we know and when we know it is where this will end for them. I see how this will end but I’m just not smart enough to stop it……
common sense says
FB & Twit as secular companies have the right to censor content and do just that everyday. Fine.
ATF estimates over 347 Million firearms in the US,
I’ll say what I want. FB can do with it what they will.
Scumbags can throw a bible in a toilet and post the pic and that’s “freedom of expression”.
I’ll say what needs to be said.
ISLAMIC TERRORISTS post be headings and other vile recruitment propaganda on you tube. I’ll say what I want.
I’ll say in the streets, to my friends, family and coworkers and on the internet wherever I can.
Ban hate speech? Then Ban the Koran and any Muslim from ever uttering any of it’s deadly words or actionable deeds.
Free speech sponsored and backed by Smith & Wesson and all the rest of my favorite gun manufacturers.
“Free men own guns, slaves don’t”
UNCLE VLADDI says
Everyone’s a victim now, because being a criminal requires proving INTENT.
CAPISCE?
😉
Criminals are all about forcing equality of outcome between them and their victims!
Victimology used to be known as “temptation;” “corruption” and “Giving in to despair.”
Now it’s not only a “mental illness” (called “Depression”) but also, apparently, a human “right!”
These days, it’s being touted as a moral VIRTUE (based on the false ‘moral high ground’ syndrome)!
PC/victimology is how criminals convince their victims that their specific crimes against them don’t matter because they’re generally all really ever only victims of everything else all the time anyway.
PC is a sure sign of criminality. The best way for criminals to stop their victims from noticing they’re being specifically victimized, is to make them think that everyone is generally always a victim of inevitable forces all the time anyway.
Criminals, who can’t support their “Crime is good! Trust me!” rhetoric with facts, must substitute feelings!
“Progressive” criminals pretend to hold submissive masochism as the highest virtue (for their victims to hold, not them) and the ultimate crime to be causing offense and hurting other people’s (criminal’s) feelings, (i.e: by accusing them of their crimes).
So they want to make it illegal to accuse criminals of their crimes, since that might hurt their feelings and in offending them with the often-painful truth, “make” them commit even more crimes!
Is there anything which really ought to qualify as hate speech and be banned?
NO – not because it’s “hateful” (because that sort of nonsense is only making subjective assessments based on emotions;) and “HATE” is really only the perfectly natural human response of perpetual anger towards ongoing crimes (like islam); without ‘hate’ we would never bother to accuse criminals of their crimes in order to stop those crimes.
Unreasonable false displays of hatred and anger on the other hand, are what the Left is good at – but that’s already illegal, not because of the anger displayed – that’s just the outrageous holier-than-thou virtue-signalling packaging used to disguise their preposterous extortion attempts – but because it’s fraudulent slander.
Such criminal leftists who try to make “hate” into a crime, only ever make it ‘illegal’ to hate crime itself!
Speech which is already disallowed is incitement of immediate violence and death-threats… and even those aren’t illegal, if say they call for the police to use violence to counter ongoing mob violence and looting, or call for the death-penalty for murderers!
THE IMPLICIT CONCOMITANT COROLLARY TO THIS “HATE-SPEECH” QUESTION IS, (as Sheik Yer’Mami dealt with it today)
“DOES THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECT THE RELIGIOUS DUTY OF JIHAD?”
http://sheikyermami.com/2016/05/does-the-first-amendment-protect-the-religious-duty-of-jihad/#comment-118503
VICTIMOLOGY101!
Is inciting violence and endorsing any and all crimes (as the Qur’an clearly does in Sura 9:120) against ‘the other’ not because of any specific crime they’ve committed, but only because you must hate them because you have been told that your god does, “Constitutionally protected free religious speech!”?
I’m pretty sure it isn’t … unless as an immoral relativist libertine “liberal” criminal, you like to pretend the rule of law set down in the Constitution is a fluid and changeable “living document.”
After all, liberal criminals like to pretend that since life if too complex for anyone to ever be able to understand cause and effect, and so all facts are really only opinions anyway, that their entirely fact-free subjective opinions (like, that your stuff was really already their stuff anyway) are the diversely opposite equals to your silly objective facts!
Therefore, there are no real crimes nor criminals, because we’re all really only ever helpless victims of mysterious inevitable outside forces of predetermined predestination.
And since we’re all non-compus-mentis victims, the only real crime should be to accuse any other victims of having free will choices (or mens-rea intent) and of objectifying them as a “criminal!”
And so now, the American DOJ itself officially heartily agrees! See:
http://unclevladdi.blogspot.ca/2016/05/its-official-doj-says-there-are-no.html
UNCLE VLADDI says
THIS IS POLITICS101:
“Criminal negligence” is a form of extortive FRAUD.
It’s where one signs a contract and agrees to accept payment to solve
a problem, but then refuse to solve it, by pretending to be stupid.
Thus one is using the fraudulent pretense of ignorance to extort funds.
solange silverman says
Facebook has long been known, attacked for and denied the maintaining of an extreme double standard when it comes to posts that tell the truth about certain things, one of them being Islam, while allowing the continued posting of incitement, hatred and lies against Jews and Israel. It and other social media are being sued for this very reason by several different entities, which does not seem to phase them. This article certainly demonstrates this. I know that I have had occasion to report some posts, pages and comments, only to receive the generic and ignorant reply, “We reviewed the Page you reported for containing hate speech or symbols and found it doesn’t violate our Community Standards.” I can almost feel the nasty glee and the smugness from the censor at the other end of the correspondence, who is hiding behind their computer and the fact that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to actually speak to any of them by phone or even by email. So, it’s pretty much a dictatorship. What they say goes. I wrote some letters to various Jewish groups to get some sort of action and was pretty much ignored and left frustrated. One of them wrote back that they were afraid to say anything for fear of losing their social media accounts!!!! Well, then, what good are they!?! And, now, this….Facebook and social media should speak about their double standards instead of their non-existent “community standards.” I mean, in what world is a picture of a rat with a Jewish star on it that says “The real problem” not a violation?
solange silverman says
Also, many of those censors are outsourced and live in Arab countries, countries with a cultural and religious history of Jew hatred, are on a personal power trip and have found a perfect way to exercise their biased beliefs.