Since violence took the streets of CharlottesvilleIn the United States, several companies in the Silicon Valley aim to prevent the communication of white ultranationalist groups, which on Saturday (12) carried torches and uttered slogans against blacks, immigrants, gays and Jews, from using their platforms and services. Such attitudes left some hate groups and websites in the limbo of the internet, unable to communicate, move money or find a home online. 1v254t
No Silicon Valley, the first declared reaction was precisely that of a company that generates offline consequences: the Airbnb. As soon as it became clear the level of violence of the people in Charlottesville, who are responsible for Airbnb sought to locate who were the s linked to these groups – and who had used the platform to obtain accommodation in the city – and canceled the s' s. um driver of Uber em charlottesville, he accepted a race, but when he saw that it was a group of ultranationalists, he threw them out of his car. According to a spokesperson, the driver received a medal of honor at a company meeting that took place on Tuesday (15).
O Google and GoDaddy – one of the most popular domain registration services in the United States – stopped hosting the neo-Nazi website “The Daily Stormer” after publishing a derogatory story about Heather Heyer, the activist who was killed while protesting the movement. O Facebook took down a number of supremacist groups and took down Saturday's event page after the violent nature became clear.
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On the financial side, the PayPal, which is the most popular payment platform on the internet, started to cut s linked to NGOs, websites, of all neo-Nazi groups that use the platform to get donations, payments and funding for activities through the system. O GoFundMe banned crowdfunding campaigns for the accused of throwing the car into the protesting crowd, culminating in Heyer's death. THE Apple cut payments to websites selling Nazi-themed merchandise. Crowdfunding platforms, Patreon e Youcaring took down campaigns to promote ideas and projects proposed by extremists.
O Discord is a very popular chat service among PC gamers. The platform revealed in a statement that it was terminating s associated with the Charlottesville. “We will continue to act against white supremacy, Nazi ideology and all forms of hatred”, the company said in this statement. the forum of Reddit also deleted the page of a community that spread ideas with this orientation. And, on Saturday (12), a group of s of Twitter created a profile, the Yes, You are a Racist (Yes, You Are Racist), to identify march participants.
Tech companies face increasing pressure to do something about online hate and harassment. Private companies like the Facebook and Google are free to determine who uses their products. Typically, however, they have tried to cultivate an image of being neutral and unbiased platforms, relying on artificial intelligence and to catch offensive content.
