Date published:
June 16, 2015
"“There’s no accountability, and in an anything-goes environment, there are no social norms on how to slow down harassing speech,” says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.
Citron, at least, thinks these platforms and others have not yet used what she calls their “enormous power” to shield vulnerable communities. Real censorship, she points out, would take the form of a government ban of content on all outlets, which is the opposite of what’s happening in the wake of Reddit’s new bans." Read more » about No Matter What Reddit Does, It’s Going to Alienate People
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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on June 17, 2015 at 12:19AM
