People who document violent extremism are being shut down in YouTube’s crackdown

Fischer’s videos are some of the best-documented instances of Holocaust denial, incitements to violence, and other extremist acts by far-right figures. Youtube isn’t the only outlet that has taken down Fischer’s videos: Facebook has also removed his footage in its sweep of “extremist” content. Some timely reading: Caught in the Net: The Impact of “Extremist” Speech Regulations on Human Rights Content, a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Jillian C York: “The examples highlighted in this document show that casting a wide net into the Internet with faulty automated moderation technology not only captures content deemed extremist, but also inadvertently captures useful content like human rights documentation, thus shrinking the democratic sphere.

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