How Content Moderation Turned Into a Game of Hot Potato

App stores and cloud hosting platforms want the right to ban content without the responsibility of moderation

Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJan 29, 2021

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When app stores and cloud hosting platforms banned Parler earlier this month after the self-described “free speech” social network failed to moderate calls for violence, they set a new…

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Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.