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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><font face="Bookman Old Style, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Hi Listers, </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><font face="Bookman Old Style, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(255,64,255)">(b) How is content
regulation achieved?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Through
intermediary liability laws. These laws generally require platforms to remove
content in at least some circumstances, with obligations usually triggered when
the platform learns about illegal material. Platforms operate notice and
take-down programs as a way both to comply with such laws and to enforce their
own discretionary content policies.<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white"> </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(148,33,146)">(c) What categories
of content face the most regulation? </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Internet platforms largely as a result of the
mounting public demands for aggressive intervention.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Calls
for companies like YouTube and Facebook to fight problems ranging from “fake
news” to hate speech to online radicalization seem to make daily headlines even gathering support from the top leadership not just locally but globally i.e </span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-size:12pt">British
prime minister Theresa May, “Industry needs to go further and faster” in
removing prohibited content by developing automated filters to
detect and suppress it automatically.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">

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<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:26 AM kanini mutemi via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><span style="font-size:14px">Hello Listers, </span><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">I’ll start us off with the discussion on Content Regulation on the internet. I find it useful for us to first understand what content regulation means. To this end, I invite your contributions to the following questions–</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#ff2600"><span style="font-size:14px">(a) What does '</span><i style="font-size:14px">content regulation</i><span style="font-size:14px"><i>’</i></span><i style="font-size:14px"> </i><span style="font-size:14px">mean?</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#ff40ff">(b) How is content regulation achieved?</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#942192">(c) What categories of content face the most regulation? </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">Let’s go! </span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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