How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech' That's a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and '90s ' and it hasn't gone away. Decades before artificial intelligence, Telegram and white nationalist Nick Fuentes' livestreams, far-right extremists embraced the early days of home computing and the internet. These new technologies offered them a bastion of free speech and a global platform. They could share propaganda, spew hatred, incite violence and gain international followers like never before. Before the digital era, far-right extremists radicalized each other primarily using print propaganda. They wrote their own newsletters and reprinted far-right tracts such as Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and American neo-Nazi William Pierce's 'The Turner Diaries,' a dystopian work of fiction describing a race war. Then, they mailed this propaganda to supporters at home and abroad. I'm a...
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