Why It’s So Hard to Define What Online Hate Speech Is
Shortly after a rally by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to the death of a counter-protestor, YouTube removed a video of U.S. soldiers blowing up a Nazi swastika in 1945. In place of the video, users saw a message saying it had been “removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.” Around the same time, an article from the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer attacking…