
23 August 2017: The Weekly Takedown
by Jillian C. York | Aug 23 2017
- SPEECH: “Despite their participatory rhetoric, social platforms are closer to authoritarian spaces than democratic ones,” writes John Herrmann in the New York Times magazine.
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LONG READ: “Defining hate speech online is an imperfect art” reads the headline from a Wired story by @daveyalba.
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LONG READ: “I’m worried about the unelected bros of Silicon Valley being the judge and jury” of speech, writes Onlinecensorship.org co-founder @jilliancyork.
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USER NOT FOUND: According to a piece in the Hill, Silicon Valley companies are playing “wait and see” before jumping into banning Nazis. “No one wants to be the last company who banned a neo-Nazi,” said one company employee.
Additional reading:
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The Daily Caller calls out big tech companies for their capitulation to the Chinese government.
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YouTube continues to remove videos documenting six years of the war in Syria.

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