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Text messages as hate speech in Kenya

Submitted by nknouf on 20 February 2008 - 4:07pm

Just this morning on NPR I heard a story about how the different factions in the recent electoral violence in Kenya were sending hate speech as text messages. Some of the content is simply horrific. This is a sobering reminder that the tools we (I) create can potentially be used for similarly horrible ends…

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