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SUMMARY:The Social Impact of Automatic Hate Speech Detection - Stefanie Ul
 lmann\, Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Centre for Humanities and Social
  Change
DTSTART:20191022T121000Z
DTEND:20191022T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Nanna K L Kaalund
DESCRIPTION:If you have a question about this talk\, please contact nklk2@
 cam.ac.uk or aa974@hermes.cam.ac.uk\n\nIn this talk\, I explore quarantini
 ng as a more ethical method for delimiting the spread of Hate Speech via o
 nline social media platforms. Currently\, companies like Facebook\, Twitte
 r\, and Google generally respond reactively to such material: offensive me
 ssages that have already been posted are reviewed by human moderators if c
 omplaints from users are received. The offensive posts are only subsequent
 ly removed if the complaints are upheld\; therefore\, they still cause the
  recipients psychological harm. In addition\, this approach has frequently
  been criticised for delimiting freedom of expression\, since it requires 
 the service providers to elaborate and implement censorship regimes. In th
 e last few years\, an emerging generation of automatic Hate Speech detecti
 on systems has started to offer new strategies for dealing with this parti
 cular kind of offensive online material. Anticipating the future efficacy 
 of such systems\, the present article advocates an approach to online Hate
  Speech detection that is analogous to the quarantining of malicious compu
 ter software. If a given post is automatically classified as being harmful
  in a reliable manner\, then it can be temporarily quarantined\, and the d
 irect recipients can receive an alert\, which protects them from the harmf
 ul content in the first instance. The quarantining framework is an example
  of more ethical online safety technology that can be extended to the hand
 ling of Hate Speech. Crucially\, it provides flexible options for obtainin
 g a more justifiable balance between freedom of expression and appropriate
  censorship.\n
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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