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Ellen Pao: “The trolls are winning.”
“I have just endured one of the largest trolling attacks in history,” writes Reddit's recently-departed interim CEO Ellen Pao in a Washington Post op-ed today. “And I have just been blessed with the...
View ArticleBaptist pastor praises Orlando shooter for killing gays
Pastor Roger Jimenez of Sacramento's Verity Baptist Church delivered a sermon praising the Orlando shooter and lamenting that The tragedy is more of them didn’t die…. I’m kind of upset he didn’t...
View ArticleGermany investigates Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over failure to remove hate...
Prosecutors in Germany have launched a formal investigation of Mark Zuckerberg and other executives at Facebook, the Munich prosecutor's office said Friday, over a complaint that Facebook broke German...
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Leaked Facebook docs: weird censorship standards that protect "white men but...
Facebook is not responsible for bad speech by its users -- section 230 of the US Telecommunications Act says that libel and other forms of prohibited speech are the responsibility of users, not those...
View ArticleTwitter complies with Germany's new hate-speech laws by cutting off the...
When a German neo-Nazi politician tweeted that German police were trying to "to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes of men," her account was briefly suspended -- but when the satirical...
View ArticleCount Dankula convicted for Nazi pug antics
YouTuber Count Dankula turned his girlfriend's pug into the star of several Hitler and Holocaust jokes. He was arrested, charged under hate crime statutes, and convicted yesterday. Via Newsweek:...
View ArticleReddit 'quarantines' white supremacist, incel, holocaust denier, and other...
Women-hating MRAs and Incels, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 Truthers, and snuff video fetishists on Reddit got harder to find today. An update of Reddit's “quarantine” policy was announced on Thursday, and...
View ArticleTwitter says it's ok to compare Jews to insects, for now
Minister Louis Farrakhan tweeted a video clip of one of his recent speeches with the comment, “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite.” Twitter says it's letting the comment stand because its policy...
View ArticleFederal judge: Lawsuit against Andrew Anglin of 'Daily Stormer' can proceed,...
In Montana today, a federal judge said the First Amendment doesn't protect a pro-Nazi internet publisher from being sued for instructing his readers to unleash a "troll storm" that materialized in a...
View ArticleFacebook says white nationalist and white separatist content now officially...
Facebook announced today that it is officially banning white nationalist and white separatist content from the platform. But they've made similar announcements before about other forms of harmful and...
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Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan,...
Facebook says it has banned accounts for Infowars, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, and others from both Facebook and Instagram, citing its “dangerous individuals and...
View ArticleHate speech on 4chan is up by 40% since 2015, analysis of one million...
My heart goes out to everyone that spent time reading those 1,000,000 4chan comments for this story. The site began in 2003 as a simple image-based bulletin board site where you could post freely...
View ArticleTraining bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people...
More bad news for Google's beleaguered spinoff Jigsaw, whose flagship project is "Perspective," a machine-learning system designed to catch and interdict harassment, hate-speech and other undesirable...
View ArticleReddit shuts down The_Donald for hate speech, harassment, and targeting
The 790,000 subscribers to The_Donald have suddenly found themselves without a place to spread hate and harassment after Reddit shut down the subreddit earlier this morning, reports The New York Times....
View ArticleYouTube bans 6 channels for hate speech, white supremacists Stefan Molyneux,...
Alphabet (Google) owned YouTube banned six channels today it says violate hate speech policies. Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer, all widely identified as white supremacists, are among...
View ArticleIn a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce...
In the last couple of weeks over 200 major advertisers, including Starbucks, Ford, GM, Clorox, Reebok, Adidas, Best Buy, Clif Bar, and Chobani have left Facebook, citing concerns over the social media...
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Trump un-banned by Twitch after ‘hateful conduct’ led to 2-week suspension
Twitch just un-banned Donald Trump. The impeached U.S. president's official Twitch channel [Link] had been suspended for two weeks for violating the streaming video platform's rules against hateful...
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What would Musk's free-speech absolutism look like on Twitter?
On Tuesday, Elon Musk tweeted that he wants people to be able to post anything they want on Twitter that "matches the law." "By 'free speech,' I simply mean that which matches the law," he said. "I am...
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Facebook blames hate speech ads on mistake, immediately approves more hate...
AP reports that nonprofit org Global Witness bought 12 ads on Facebook that "used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia's three main ethnic groups —...
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Kanye West dumped by fashion's Balenciaga after his many antisemitic remarks
Fashion house Balenciaga — for which Ye posed with a high-fashion boxing mouthguard — has dumped the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Among other reasons, Balenciaga's decision came after the GOP...
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