Defining 'Hate Speech' Online Is Imperfect Art as Much as Science
Defining 'Hate Speech' Online Is Imperfect Art as Much as Science
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
August 23, 20176m 37s
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Show Notes
Shortly after a rally by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to the death of a counter-protestor, YouTube removed a video of U.S. soldiers blowing up a Nazi swastika in 1945. In place of the video, users saw a message saying it had been “removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.
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