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Favorite articles roundup for the week of August 9, 2019

August 08, 2019 3 min read Disney Garfield hate speech LGBTQ Netflix podcast Rocko's Modern Life roundup Tech transgender Viacom

Here’s some interesting articles from the past week, and my thoughts about them. Media iHeartMedia loves podcasts? Art by Gary Barker, Lisa Moore, and Dan Davis. iHeartMedia (the radio conglomerate formerly

Twitter can support an open platform without tolerating the "alt-right"

August 12, 2018 3 min read free speech hate speech InfoWars Tech Twitter

About a year ago, I wrote about how the tech industry’s handling both hate speech and free speech issues. Since then, the past year’s seen more hate speech issues

Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked

September 25, 2017 2 min read comments hate speech racism Reddit Tech

Photo by Eva Blue (Flickr / CC BY) Recently, Reddit’s tried to clean up the self-declared “front page of the Internet,” by banning some high-profile racist subreddits. (The fact they

The tech industry grapples with hate speech

August 21, 2017 3 min read Black Lives Matter diversity free speech hate speech racism Tech

The past week in tech news has largely centered around the aftermath of the Charlottesville, Virginia counterprotests against neo-Nazis and white supremacists, which saw protester Heather Heyer killed. Since then, various White supremacists&