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Unlikely Allies Join Fight To Protect Free Speech On The Internet

After big tech companies took action to take down white supremacist content, there have been calls for the government to step in to protect free speech from the right and left.
White nationalist Richard Spencer speaks earlier this month to select media in Alexandria, Va. Spencer is head of the National Policy Institute and self-described creator of the term "alt-right."

Following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., Silicon Valley tech firms removed far-right groups from search results, cut off their websites and choked their ability to raise money online.

The moves have leaders on the far-right calling for the government to step in and regulate these companies. They have some strange bedfellows in this too — many liberals also are calling for more

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