What companies are currently doing on their platforms is censoring views and ideas that are unpopular, regardless of their right to say it. It is no question that harassment and extremist content are posted online in large numbers, but when a single video surfaces, becomes headlines across many forms of news, and represents the platform as a whole, companies take drastic action to make sure this ‘harrassment’ does not happen again. Take the recent controversy of Felix Kjellberg, or his youtube name, PewDiePie. A Wall Street Journalist reported that a very old video was filled with racist and anti-semitic imagery (Molina). Despite both whether the video actually contained reprehensible content and negatively affected millions, waves of new policies and filters were put in place to ‘protect’ the victims. The end result of the
What companies are currently doing on their platforms is censoring views and ideas that are unpopular, regardless of their right to say it. It is no question that harassment and extremist content are posted online in large numbers, but when a single video surfaces, becomes headlines across many forms of news, and represents the platform as a whole, companies take drastic action to make sure this ‘harrassment’ does not happen again. Take the recent controversy of Felix Kjellberg, or his youtube name, PewDiePie. A Wall Street Journalist reported that a very old video was filled with racist and anti-semitic imagery (Molina). Despite both whether the video actually contained reprehensible content and negatively affected millions, waves of new policies and filters were put in place to ‘protect’ the victims. The end result of the