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Hate Speech in the Cloud: Cloudflare Confronts Internet Censorship
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by Nancy K. Herther
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On May 4, 2017, ProPublica accused network operator Cloudflare of policies that make possible the "operations of such extreme sites" as "the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer." The article notes that Cloudflare ... was providing services to neo-Nazi sites, "including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content." ... [T]he article was picked up by other news outlets and has become another part of the ongoing debate about the role of websites and social media in giving a platform to extremism.
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Turning Students Into Readers With the LightSail Literacy Platform
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Even if we liked reading as a kid, we all have memories of slogging through at least one assignment that just wasn't speaking to us. (CliffsNotes is popular for a reason.) The LightSail literacy platform for grades K-12 aims to make all books entertaining and educational by capitalizing on the gamification of learning and making it easy for students to find their next curriculum-approved read.
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How Much Have Libraries Contributed to Their Communities? (2:46)
Pew Research Center director of Internet and Technology Research Lee Rainie discusses libraries' contributions to their communities in this clip from his keynote at Computers in Libraries 2019.
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