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Tech Firms Break From Hands-Off Approach With Bans on White Supremacists

on August 16, 2017

""The number of net intermediaries acting as gatekeepers has increased," since GoDaddy booted Daily Stormer, said Daphne Keller, who studies platforms' legal responsibilities at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. "Suddenly the domain registrars are sitting in judgment on content and speech," joining the usual players around free speech such as Google, Facebook and Twitter."

Date Published:08/16/2017
Original Publication:The Wall Street Journal

Published in: Press , hate speech , censorship , First Amendment , Intermediary Liability