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Efforts to Curb Online Hate Meet Concerns Over Speech An ADL survey of harassment adds urgency to a debate over limits of expression. Stewart Ain Staff Writer
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Alan Silverman, director of Camp Moshava in the Poconos, has spent the spring fundraising by phone and Zoom to make up for this summer’s lost tuition income. COU RTESY AL AN SI LVER MAN
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And Lisa Rubins, assistant director of Camp Yavneh in rural New Hampshire, would be at home packing for camp. But the summer of 2020, with Covid-19 wreaking havoc on plans for large gatherings of all kinds — at venues ranging from synagogues to museums to camps — is not a normal summer. Instead, Silverman is in Israel this week, quarantining himself
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new survey by the Anti-Defamation League confirms the wide extent of online hate and harassment — but will probably not settle a national debate over the limits of what can and what can’t be said online and in other public forums. Fully 28 percent of Americans said they have experienced online harassment and hate this year — and 22 percent said they were subject to religion-based harassment, double the figure just two years ago, ac-
Kenneth S. Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, is the author of a new book cording to the ADL. about free speech and the It also found that campus debate over Isfully 77 percent of the rael. C O U R T E S Y K E N N E T H S T E R N online harassment took place on Facebook. The ADL, along with the NAACP and four other civil rights organizations, has now launched a campaign calling upon some of the world’s largest corporations to pause advertising on Facebook for the month of July. Among the major corporations joining the effort are Patagonia, the North Face, Upwork, REI and Mozilla.
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