Big Tech's Blackballing of Neo-Nazi Sites Shows Who Controls the Internet

In the wake of a domestic terrorist incident at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, we witnessed a flashpoint in a long-overdue debate: How much control should a few powerful internet companies have over user content? On August 12, Heather Heyer, a counter protester at the white supremacist rally, was killed in a domestic terrorist attack. Shortly after, neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer celebrated her death in a blog post. After public outrage, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Google, and a number of other tech companies stopped lending their services to the website in quick succession.Radio Motherboard discusses who should control the internet.

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