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Facebook, Airbnb Go on Offense Against Nazis After Violence
"That doesn’t mean these companies aren’t feeling the pressure from advertisers and users who fear that pages belonging to alt-right publications like the…
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Tech Firms Break From Hands-Off Approach With Bans on White Supremacists
""The number of net intermediaries acting as gatekeepers has increased," since GoDaddy booted Daily Stormer, said Daphne Keller, who studies plat…
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Charlottesville is reshaping the fight against online hate
"At the same time, many anti-racism groups see free speech arguments as a distraction. The Oakland-based Center for Media Justice applauded GoDaddy’s decis…
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A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.
"The coalition has gathered 570,000 signatures urging Facebook to acknowledge discriminatory censorship exists on its platform, that it harbors white supre…
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That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that.
"There’s a lot of uncertainty and fear out there, post-Gawker, said Nabiha Syed, BuzzFeed’s assistant general counsel, who vetted the story before publicat…
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A ruling against Google in Canada could affect free speech around the world
"But Canada’s Supreme Court has flipped this script with its globally-binding ruling. Daphne Keller, a director of Stanford University’s Center for Interne…
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Facebook censorship bias detailed in internal documents
"Facebook’s “noncommittal” response to the groups’ request last year prompted them to ask to meet with company representatives, but the company did not res…
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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
"“Sadly,” the rules are “incorporating this color-blindness idea which is not in the spirit of why we have equal protection,” said Danielle Citron, a law p…
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In terror fight, tech companies caught between US and European ideals
"“It’s so easy to point to the need for internet companies to do more that that becomes a real rallying cry,” says Daphne Keller, the director of Intermedi…
Making Google the Censor
Prime Minister Theresa May’s political fortunes may be waning in Britain, but her push to make internet companies police their users’ speech is alive and well.…
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Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship
"Morgan Weiland, an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says the blocked tweeters’ complaint could air key questi…
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Jailed for a Facebook post: how US police target critics with arrest and prosecution
"“For a country that purports to be guided by democracy and guided by civil rights, this is a very dangerous and very slippery slope,” said Malkia Cyril, t…