{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/a10fcc2c-a93b-449a-a211-94a799c8c618/f7152ee8-c0ba-4f8e-b291-316f1b71d358?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Big Tech's Blackballing of Neo-Nazi Sites Shows Who Controls the Internet","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b7a17e169562564ae952b9/61b7a1983679560012c62e1e.jpg?height=200","description":"In the wake of a domestic terrorist incident at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, we witnessed a flashpoint in a long-overdue debate: How much control should a few powerful internet companies have over user content? \n\nOn August 12, Heather Heyer, a counter protester at the white supremacist rally, was killed in a domestic terrorist attack. Shortly after, neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer celebrated her death in a blog post. After public outrage, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Google, and a number of other tech companies stopped lending their services to the website in quick succession.\n\n\nRadio Motherboard discusses who should control the internet.","author_name":"VICE"}