... In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:
Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.
The Documenting Hate News Index — built by the Google News Lab, data visualization studio Pitch Interactive and ProPublica — takes a raw feed of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API to create a visual tool to help reporters find news happening across the country. It’s a constantly-updating snapshot of data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to reporting on this area of news.
The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because local jurisdictions aren't required to report incidents up to the federal government.
All of which underlines the value of the Documenting Hate Project, which is powered by a number of different news organisations and journalists who collect and verify reports of hate crimes and events. Documenting Hate is informed by both reports from members of the public and raw Google News data of stories from across the nation.
... If the SPLC and ADL, with their (growing) list of "hate groups" is going to be the arbiter for approved online speech, we have reached a very scary place in this country. It will be the end of the Internet as we know it and America will be no better than totalitarian China and N. Korea.
SPLC - terrible people.
The sites targeted over the last week have tried registering alternative names at different registrars and they've had the same thing happen each time. It's a coordinated campaign to purge them from the entire Internet.
And then there is the entire TOR network.
And then there is the entire TOR network.
I've heard of the Darknet (although I don't fully understand it), but what's TOR?
The cynic (and I include myself in this) might even say the State is in league with giant tech companies to enact speech restrictions that the State itself could not do directly.
The cynic (and I include myself in this) might even say the State is in league with giant tech companies to enact speech restrictions that the State itself could not do directly.
Now THAT'S scary. Leaving the State innocent while private enterprise does its dirty work.
Great. Just great.
In scanning Drudge a minute ago, I see a headline saying a showing of Gone With The Wind has been cancelled -- insensitivity.
They just got Stormfront. Not my cup of tea but today's Stormfront is tomorrow's Barnhart.
They just got Stormfront. Not my cup of tea but today's Stormfront is tomorrow's Barnhart.
They got Barnhart see on another thread.