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Who Should Regulate Extremist Content Online?

Alastair Reed Orcid Logo, Adam Henschke

Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology: Emerging Challenges at the Frontiers of Counter-Terrorism, Pages: 175 - 198

Swansea University Author: Alastair Reed Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-030-90221-6_11

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As liberal democracies grapple with the evolution of online political extremism, in addition to governments, social media and internet infrastructure companies have found themselves making more and more decisions about who gets to use their platforms, and what people say online. This raises the ques...

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Published in: Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology: Emerging Challenges at the Frontiers of Counter-Terrorism
ISBN: 9783030902209 9783030902216
ISSN: 1613-5113 2363-9466
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59041
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Abstract: As liberal democracies grapple with the evolution of online political extremism, in addition to governments, social media and internet infrastructure companies have found themselves making more and more decisions about who gets to use their platforms, and what people say online. This raises the question that this paper explores, who should regulate extremist content online? In doing so the first part of the paper examines the evolution of the increasing role that social media and internet infrastructure companies have come to play in the regulating extremist content online, and the ethical challenges this presents. The second part of the paper explores three ethical challenges: i) the moral legitimacy of private actors, ii) the concentration of power in the hands of a few actors and iii) the lack of separation of powers in the content regulation process by private actors.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 175
End Page: 198

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