2020
DOI: 10.1007/s43545-020-00008-2
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The Christchurch Call: insecurity, democracy and digital media - can it really counter online hate and extremism?

Abstract: The Christchurch Call was an international collaborative pledge between nation states and online service providers "to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online." In this article, we set out to provide an integrated cross-disciplinary analysis of the implications of the limitations of the Christchurch Call. We argue the existence of the Call helped change the conversation on the role played by online communication in hate, harassment and terrorism. However, the Christchurch Call is limited in it… Show more

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“…Some of those difficulties around the occupation of monopoly positions and liability for distributed content have already been alluded to, but they are really symptomatic of a bigger issue that confronts OSPs: the role of the internet in political life, more generally at the nation-state level, that OSPs facilitate. The internet has gone from being seen as an open public space, an ideal that OSPs have carefully curated through their portrayal of themselves as social libertarians, playing a crucial part in the organisation of protests against authoritarianism and the advance of democracy (Google executive, Wael Ghonim's comment that 'if you want to liberate a society, just give them the internet' comes to mind [Hofheinz, 2011]) to one in which political manipulation through the platforming of fake news in the form of disinformation and the silencing of voices in anti-democratic manner through 'takedown' activities are said to occur (Hoverd et. al, 2021).…”
Section: The 'Ask' Of the Christchurch Callmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some of those difficulties around the occupation of monopoly positions and liability for distributed content have already been alluded to, but they are really symptomatic of a bigger issue that confronts OSPs: the role of the internet in political life, more generally at the nation-state level, that OSPs facilitate. The internet has gone from being seen as an open public space, an ideal that OSPs have carefully curated through their portrayal of themselves as social libertarians, playing a crucial part in the organisation of protests against authoritarianism and the advance of democracy (Google executive, Wael Ghonim's comment that 'if you want to liberate a society, just give them the internet' comes to mind [Hofheinz, 2011]) to one in which political manipulation through the platforming of fake news in the form of disinformation and the silencing of voices in anti-democratic manner through 'takedown' activities are said to occur (Hoverd et. al, 2021).…”
Section: The 'Ask' Of the Christchurch Callmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is in this light that we have to understand the Christchurch attacker referring to the livestream of his massacre as an 'effort post' on 8Chan -in contrast to a low effort 'shitpost' ( Hoverd, Salter, andVeale 2020 2020b, 4, 10;Macklin 2019;Rowe 2019). His livestream was an exemplar first-tier attempt to court the social capital and approval of existing white supremacist hate-groups online.…”
Section: The Algorithmic Economic and Community Dynamics Of Online Ex...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, in order for these approaches to work, those multilateral agreements between corporations and nations must be taken seriously. For example, the Christchurch Call presents a very useful initial foundation for such discussions (Hoverd, Salter, and Veale 2020;Thompson 2019, 90;Veale 2020a, 149-50), but it is in danger of falling victim to the defensive politics of positivity. Current discussions of the Call suggest that 90 percent of the groups involved with the Call can back away from taking the algorithmic dimensions of extremism seriously when that is a core provision of the agreement without substantial challenge (RNZ 2021b).…”
Section: Online Economies Driving Extremismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The main motivation of this paper is to reduce the recent challenges in incel research by investigating differences in misogyny and the role of incel forums in radicalization, which can be effective to better understand the extremism aspects and online subculture of the incel ideology [20][21][22]. However, by understanding the types of characters and retrieving meaningful topics from these communities, one might be able to design social strategies based on AI-models to prevent their hostility towards women.…”
Section: Research Model and Questionmentioning
confidence: 99%