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Borderline speech: caught in a free speech limbo?

Amélie Heldt, Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 15 Oct 2020

To ban content that might possibly violate their own content policies, social media platforms use the term 'borderline‘. This means categorising content as potentially unwanted (e.g. harmful, inappropriate, etc) and sanctioning legitimate expressions of opinion - hence putting lawful speech in a twilight zone.