Monday, February 08, 2021

Banning disruptive online groups is a game of Whac-a-Mole that web giants just won't win

From Washington, D.C., to Wall Street, 2021 has already seen online groups causing major organised offline disruption. Some of it has been in violation of national laws, some in violation of internet platforms' terms of service. When these groups are seen to cause societal harm, the solution has been knee-jerk: to ban or "deplatform" those groups immediately, leaving them digitally "homeless."

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-disruptive-online-groups-game-whac-a-mole.html