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No Easy Way Out: The Effectiveness of Deplatforming an Extremist Forum to Suppress Hate and Harassment. (arXiv:2304.07037v1 [cs.CR])
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Legislators and policymakers worldwide are debating options for suppressing
illegal, harmful and undesirable material online. Drawing on several
quantitative datasets, we show that deplatforming an active community to
suppress online hate and harassment, even with a substantial collective effort
involving several tech firms, can be hard. Our case study is the disruption of
the largest and longest-running harassment forum Kiwi Farms in late 2022, which
is probably the most extensive industry effort to date. We collected complete
snapshots of this …
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