[Lekooks] Fwd: Weekend Read: It took Charlottesville for Silicon Valley to stand up to hate

Sat Aug 19 13:39:59 CDT 2017

Finally beginning to take away their social voice.

Liz

"Besides, interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in
the middle where everything is the same." from Snow Crash by Neal
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Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 6:02 AM
Subject: Weekend Read: It took Charlottesville for Silicon Valley to stand
up to hate
To: Liz Kreml <Lizkreml at gmail.com>

Silicon Valley has a reputation as a liberal place, but it was a critical
partner in the deadly "Unite the Right" rally that cost a counter-protestor
her life.
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AUGUST 19, 2017

Good morning Liz,

Silicon Valley has a reputation as a liberal place, but it was a critical
partner in the deadly "Unite the Right" rally that cost a counter-protestor
her life.

Hate groups of all stripes used their websites to advertise their
participation in the rally. They turned to social media to urge their
followers to join them. And they used services like PayPal and Patreon to
fund their invasion of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Such partnerships may soon be a thing of the past. By Monday morning,
service providers had begun to pull the plug on hate groups and individual
extremists alike.

"I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the
internet," Cloudflare Chief Executive Matthew Prince wrote
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in an email to employees announcing his suspension of the neo-Nazi website
The Daily Stormer.

The Daily Stormer became the top hate site in America
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last year, but it struggled to stay online this week after its longtime
host, GoDaddy, delisted its domain on Monday. Over the course of the week,
The Daily Stormer transferred its registration to Google and even to the
Russian Network Information Center, only to be kicked off each provider.

"Charlottesville has definitely lit a fire under some people," SPLC
Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich told
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*USA
Today*. "I wonder if the violence marks a sea change."

Beirich is right that tech companies have been stubbornly hands-off in the
past. Despite policies that are ostensibly "anti-hate," they have rarely
taken action to remove hateful content or users from their platforms.

But as the nation grapples with the violent coordination of hate groups
across the far-right spectrum in Charlottesville, Facebook
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has shut down at least nine pages connected to the rally; Twitter
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have suspended several extremist accounts; Reddit
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has eliminated one discussion community that supported "Unite the Right,"
and even OKCupid
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has kicked white nationalist Christopher Cantwell off the dating site.

By far, the biggest sweep came from PayPal
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which agreed to block at least 34 organizations from using its services
after an SPLC report highlighted how extremists used the platform
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to fund the rally in Charlottesville.

"For the longest time, PayPal has essentially been the banking system for
white nationalism," the SPLC's Keegan Hankes told
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*The
Washington Post*. "It's a shame it took Charlottesville for them to take it
seriously."

It is good news that PayPal, Patreon and other tech companies are finally
taking steps to curb the hate on their platforms. But to truly make a dent
in the hate and bigotry online, tech companies must be more cognizant of
the role their services play in spreading hate.

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention," Heather Heyer, 32,
posted on Facebook
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before she was killed by an alleged Nazi sympathizer in Charlottesville.

It's wise advice for tech firms in Silicon Valley and beyond.

As always, thank you for your support,

The Editors

P.S. Here are some other pieces this week that we think are valuable:

Charlottesville and the trouble with Civil War hypotheticals
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by Jelani Cobb for *The New Yorker*

Politicians blamed 'both sides' during the civil rights movement: KKK and
the NAACP
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by Lindsey Bever for *The Washington Post*

The Monuments Must Go: an open letter from the great-great-grandsons of
Stonewall Jackson
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by Jack and Warren Christian for *Slate*

Meet the clergy who stared down white supremacists in Charlottesville
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by Jack Jenkins for *ThinkProgress*

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