200: How much should tech companies moderate speech? (Timothy Lee)

January 21, 2018

This episode features tech and policy journalist Timothy Lee, discussing a question that’s increasingly in the spotlight: How much should tech companies  be actively moderating their users’ speech? For example, should Facebook be trying to fight fake news? Should Twitter ban bullying? Should Reddit ban subreddits that they consider hate speech? Timothy and Julia look at the question not just from the legal perspective, but also from the moral and strategic perspectives as well.

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