Moderating horror and hate on the web may be beyond even AI | John Naughton

Managing the barrage of upsetting material online is a challenge that service providers are struggling to meet, even if they try

Way back in the mid-1990s, when the web was young and the online world was buzzing with blogs, a worrying problem loomed. If you were an ISP that hosted blogs, and one of them contained material that was illegal or defamatory, you could be held legally responsible and sued into bankruptcy. Fearing that this would dramatically slow the expansion …

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