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Re GoDaddy finally took down neo-Nazi website & Google booted it next
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:31:29 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Charles Arthur <charles.arthur () gmail com> Subject: Re: [IP] Re GoDaddy finally took down neo-Nazi website & Google booted it next Date: August 15, 2017 at 1:24:17 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: gumby () henkel-wallace org If we are for the moment ignoring “does it meet the Ts and Cs” (where the Ts and Cs can presumably include “don’t be horrendously racist”, in which case it’s outside them…) One has to balance the value of “keeping racism in the public eye” with “denying people who want to foment extremism and to radicalise people an easily found meeting point”. Racism doesn’t thrive when it’s atomised or its proponents are split apart, because of the peer pressure from non-racists. The same pattern is repeated for any extreme behaviour on the net: if you provide an easy site for people to gather, then you’ll get a shift towards greater extremes of that behaviour. Cass Sunstein has written about this: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/06/how_on_earth_do_you_tame_extremists.html <http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/06/how_on_earth_do_you_tame_extremists.html> On that basis, making a site for Nazis homeless seems an overall positive. The comparison with human trafficking isn’t reasonable. The motives aren’t the same at all.
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