It’s time to crack down on white supremacist havens like 8chan (Opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Karen Kornbluh is senior fellow and director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at The German Marshall Fund, a non-partisan think tank and grant-making institution dedicated to deepening transatlantic ties. While the result is an improvement, for now, Cloudflare should have terminated the site’s account back in March after the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, despite feeling “incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter.” Internet companies have responsibilities beyond connectivity and must do better at assuming them. The prevailing ethos of internet hosting and connectivity companies has long been to leave content up and sites connected — preserving users’ rights to free expression. As a result, internet companies do in fact regularly take down child pornography, sex trafficking and Islamic terrorist content when they become aware of it — and report it to the FBI. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron convened the Christchurch Call to Action as an effort to force the hands of the companies to state what they would do to combat online terrorist and violent extremist content.
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