APrIGF 2017 Side Event: Technology and Extremism
The Internet has served as a vehicle for radicalisation and mobilisation online, as well as a growing source of hate speech. In addition to the legal and policy solutions that may be available in different jurisdictions, policymakers are increasingly turning to platform providers and technology intermediaries to develop automated solutions in this space. This event focused on challenges to free expression that such automated solutions might pose, and whether technological approaches threaten principles of the open Internet.
