Facebook, Cloudflare, Twitter Latest Tech Giants to Exile White Supremacists

Silicon Valley joined a swelling backlash against

neo-Nazi groups in the United States on Wednesday as more technology companies removed white supremacists from their services in response to weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Social media networks Twitter and LinkedIn, music service Spotify and security firm Cloudflare were among the companies cutting off services to hate groups or removing material that they said spread hate.

Earlier in the week, Facebook, Alphabet Inc and GoDaddy also took steps to block hate groups.

The wave of Internet crackdowns against white nationalists and neo-Nazis reflected a rapidly changing mindset among Silicon Valley firms on how far they are willing to go to police hate speech.


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