Private censorship

'Private Censorship' is about free speech and how corporations and social groups can interfere with it. J.P. Messina asks and variously answers questions like: what should we think when employees get fired for things they say? When is it appropriate for social media firms to deplatform use...

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Main Author: Messina, J. P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2023, 2023©2024
Series:Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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Summary:'Private Censorship' is about free speech and how corporations and social groups can interfere with it. J.P. Messina asks and variously answers questions like: what should we think when employees get fired for things they say? When is it appropriate for social media firms to deplatform users, and what does it mean for our democracy that those in charge of such decisions are often wealthy Silicon Valley executives? Do search engines act as massive gatekeepers to information in troubling ways, and how might they be constrained if so? Messina argues that while there is much to worry about when it comes to these exercises of private power, it would be a mistake to simply do away with them, as some have suggested
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2023
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780197581933