TikTok has announced that it's signing up to the E.U.'s 4-year-old anti-hate speech code of conduct. TikTok said that it has always opposed illegal hate speech in its terms and conditions.
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Several patches have been submitted to the Linux kernel which drop the F-word in favour of 'hug'. The change was made to make the project more inclusive in line with the Code of Conduct.
The Debian Project has announced that it will be releasing quarterly reports from its anti-harassment team which is tasked with enforcing the diversity statement and code of conduct documents.
The founder of SQLite has updated the project with a new Code of Conduct following requests that one be included by clients. The Christian founder used a 1,500-year-old text as its basis.
Richard Stallman has proposed the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines in response to calls for a code of conduct from some people. A code of conduct was met with resistance by some, including Stallman.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the temporary head of the Linux project, has released version 4.19 of the Linux kernel. While the cycle hasn't seen the most commits ever, it did introduce the new code of conduct.
The European Union has congratulated Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and Google for their work on combating illegal hate speech on the platforms. The EU said improvements were still needed though.
