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Speech, Harm, and the Duties of Digital Intermediaries: Conceptualizing Platform Ethics

Brett Gregory JohnsonSchool of Journalism, University of Missouri–ColumbiaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 16-27 | Received 18 Sep 2015, Accepted 06 Jun 2016, Published online: 18 Jan 2017

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Brett G. Johnson. (2018) Tolerating and managing extreme speech on social media. Internet Research 28:5, pages 1275-1291.
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