Tag: hate speech

Several high school students who vandalized their school with hateful slurs were caught because their phones automatically connected to the school’s wireless network. Seth Taylor, Tyler Curtiss, Joshua Shaffer, and Matthew Lipp were seniors at Glenelg High School in Maryland last year when they broke into the school for a senior prank at nearly midnight one day in May. They said that they intended to paint “Class of 2018” in the school, but instead they painted racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic slurs,...

YouTube has continued to muck up its own attempts to regulate hate speech on its platform with two recent developments. First, it said today that users can make hateful, even homophobic statements targeting a single individual as long as the statements are part of a larger argument. Second, the company’s recent efforts to ban extremists has included demonetizing videos of journalists who make their money covering racism and white supremacists. These developments come after yesterday’s decision by YouTube to allow right-wing...

Twitter has long faced criticism for seemingly being soft on abusive voices, including white nationalists and others. Now, the social networking service says they are conducting in-house research in an effort to determine what to do about the problem. The platform is trying to determine if they should outright ban such speech from the site or if giving it a platform will allow their views to be debated and changed by others. Speaking to Motherboard, Twitter’s head of trust and safety,...

The students at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, were not having it when demonstrators showed up on their campus holding anti-LGBTQ, anti-women and anti-Muslim signs. According to the university’s online newspaper, The Whit, one of the signed held high read, “Warning: homos, whores, porno freaks…Muslims, drunks…obey Jesus or hellfire.” Charming. At the time, a social media post went out among students which claimed the demonstrators make their appearances on college campuses around the country in an attempt to make money. The social...