Free speech concerns as extreme-right evicted from web


  • TECH
  • Monday, 21 Aug 2017

An internet cable is seen at a server room in this picture illustration taken in Warsaw January 24, 2012. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WASHINGTON: A sweeping crackdown by US Internet and social media companies on neo-Nazi and white supremacist material has sparked warnings in America that the Web’s grand promise of free speech is on the rocks. 

Over the past week, Vanguard America, Daily Stormer and other such ultra-right racist groups and their members known for extremely violent and offensive postings and websites were essentially scrubbed from the public web. 

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