In the Middle East, online hate speech is rising, according to 7amleh, an Israeli-based non-profit that advocates for Palestinian digital rights, which recorded more than 620,000 online conversations involving racism and incitement last year.Īccess Now has called on Twitter to halt the sale until it sets out “concrete measures to protect human rights, regardless of who owns the company,” including conducting an independent human rights impact assessment of the proposed acquisition. Such tweets are reviewed and acted on, with “immediate and permanent suspension” of the accounts of those sharing violent threats, it says. Twitter’s policy states that targeting people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease “may be in violation of our hateful conduct policy.” Musk’s proposals would put him at loggerheads with Asian governments that want tech companies to quickly remove content they deem as inappropriate, and the European Union where new rules call for more aggressive online policing of hate speech. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
