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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

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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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