"But the debate has ramped up in recent years with an emboldening of white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups and pressure from countries in Europe to get American technology companies to crack down on hate speech, said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and author of the book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.”
“This isn’t happening in a vacuum, this report,” Ms. Citron said on Sunday. “It’s happening when there’s a lot of pressure on companies to remove and filter and block hate speech.”"
- Date Published:07/08/2018
- Original Publication:The New York Times