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Amazon Is Used to Promote White Supremacist Merchandise and Views, Report Says

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"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.”"

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