The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has been granted access to scan emails hosted by the world’s top email providers for “hate speech”. 

Several corporations recently updated their privacy policies and user agreements, allowing them to snoop on users’ private emails to check for dissenting opinions.

Returnofkings.com reports: What’s going on here?

Microsoft

There are some new changes to the Microsoft user agreement. This affects users of Hotmail or their many other services (121 are listed). Could this have any implications for freedom of speech? The answer wasn’t hard to find.

Item 5 describes “offensive language”, specifying it “means violent, profane, or hateful language”. It states that this merely “clarifies that inappropriate content includes offensive language, among other things.” That’s remarkably open-ended. Presumably, tirades count. However, technically even a swear word is a violation. They’re not micromanaging that far yet, but they could.

The complete user agreement states the following under 2.a.vii:

Don’t engage in…