After banning remote public comments last year in response to a Zoom hate speech incident, Morgan Hill narrowly voted this week to reinstate it. The new regulation seeks to exploit a legal loophole to allow virtual comments while cutting off hate speech in a potential first for California.
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The technology has also allowed anonymous trolls, some from thousands of miles away, to interject racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic messages into civic proceedings.