Defining 'Hate Speech' Online Is Imperfect Art as Much as Science
Aug 23, 2017•7 min
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Episode description
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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