Why the Taliban Can’t Use Facebook
The Lawfare Podcast
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Humanitarian Assistance Is a Real Problem
There is no reason to think that keeping information that you've pulled down off the inter net, such as a video of people massacring ethnic or religious minorities in some corner of the world, there's absolutely nothing in the law that says you have to deleate this stuff. Under these regimes, you're not doing a service that these organizations want. If anything, you are preserving evidence that may ultimately be useful to governments in prosecuting them later. And i'm especially in suchlike rapidly evolving situations where theire having to rely on audomated tools, perhaps the distinctions aren't quite so easy. Do we want platforms to err on the side of leaving more speech up, even if that results
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