Our Thoughts on the New Zealand Massacre

EFF is deeply saddened and disturbed by the massacre in New Zealand. We offer our condolences to the survivors and families of victims.This horrific event had an online component; one gunman livestreamed the event, and it appears that he had an active and hateful online presence. Enforcing their terms of use, most web platforms appear to have removed the horrendous video and related content.Incidents involving extreme violence invite hard questions about how platforms can enforce their policies without unfairly silencing innocent voices. Online platforms have the right to remove speech that violates their community standards, as is happening here.But times of tragedy often bring calls for platforms to ramp up their speech-policing practices. Those practices often expand to silence legitimate voices—including those that have long sought to overcome marginalization.It’s understandable to call for more aggressive moderation policies in the face of horrifying crimes.…

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