BLAVITY OP-ED: Black People Deserve To Be Protected Online As Much As They Do Offline
The Color Of Change team writes about how social media platforms — from Tiktok to Twitter to Reddit — have done too little to put an end racist attacks on creators. Hate speech is proliferating online. Black Twitch creators staged a digital walkout recently in response to the company’s failure to protect Black users. Racist targeting on tech platforms is hardly something new. Last month, TikTok creators on the Creator Marketplace were banned just for having the word “Black” in their profile. It’s important to understand that, “exclusive, anti-Black policies are ingrained in so many online platforms. As a result, these companies have allowed hate speech and white nationalist organizing to run rampant on social media — enacting violence against Black creators in the process.” See what Color Of Change is doing to stop it.
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