Should web firms decide what we see online?

Abstract

Adee comments on how social media firms decide what people should see online. Social media firms have long been under fire to protect their users from accounts that spew hate speech. But companies that host websites and offer other web services have been given a free pass. The debate on hate speech has so far been dominated by social media firms. Perhaps free speech and US law can no longer be the sole arbiter of whether or not a tech company chooses its customers, according from Bharath Ganesh at the Oxford Internet Institute in the UK.