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Publication date: 23 April 2021

Tanner Mirrlees

Purpose – This chapter demonstrates the power that Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (or the “GAFAM”) exercise over platforms within society, highlights the…

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Purpose – This chapter demonstrates the power that Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (or the “GAFAM”) exercise over platforms within society, highlights the alt-right’s use of GAFAM sites and services as a platform for hate, and examines GAFAM’s establishment and use of hate content moderation apparatuses to de-platform alt-right users and delete hate content. Approach – Drawing upon a political economy of communications approach, this chapter demonstrates GAFAM’s power in society. It also undertakes a reading of GAFAM “terms of service agreements” and “community guidelines” documents to identify GAFAM hate content moderation apparatuses. Findings – GAFAM are among the most powerful platforms in the world, and their content moderation apparatuses are empowered by the US government’s cyber-libertarian approach to Internet law and regulation. GAFAM are defining hate speech, deciding what’s to be done about it, and censoring it. Value – This chapter probes GAFAM’s hate content moderation apparatuses for Internet platforms, and shows how GAFAM enable and constrain the alt-right’s hate speech on their platforms. It also reflexively assesses the politics of empowering GAFAM to de-platform the alt-right.

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Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-729-9

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Publication date: 23 April 2021

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Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-729-9

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Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80071-729-9

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Publication date: 2 October 2001

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Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control
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ISBN: 978-1-61-583246-0

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Publication date: 7 December 2001

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Optimal Growth Economics: An Investigation of the Contemporary Issues and the Prospect for Sustainable Growth
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ISBN: 978-0-44450-860-7

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