Should tech companies be able to shut down neo-Nazis?

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn talk with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about the future of free speech on the internet. Cloudflare publicly terminated the account of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, in the aftermath of the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville that led to the deaths of one counter-protestor and two police officers. Prince and Cohn debate whether CEOs like Prince should be able to unilaterally restrict a website, with Cohn arguing that the move threatens all free expression online; Prince says he knowingly did the wrong thing for the right reason in order to force a conversation about the topic.

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