Re GoDaddy finally took down neo-Nazi website & Google booted it next

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
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> 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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