Jeffrey J. Hall, "Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Impact of Utube on Japanese Tubers
utube up dated its community guide lines to not allow the publishing of videos that deny well documented historical events. But this kind of change in guy lines, which had an impact on japanese tubers, was not because of social pressure in japan about these issues. It was because american domestic political issues were going on where there were people denying sandy hook and the school shooting. And then you two acted. Similarly, there have been other social media companies acting to try to cut down on things like vaccine denial and coved conspiracies and election conspiracies. So i it's a reallyaa difficult issue, and one that, unless these companies act, probably will not be solved.
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