Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Twitter's Role in Promoting Free Speech Abroad



What happens when another country finds Twitter guilty of violating its hate speech laws, requiring the company to remove banned content? Probably not what you think....read all about Twitter's "country-withheld content” policy here

What do you think about the growing use of Twitter for spreading "hate" speech? Have any of you noticed an increase in vicious tweets lately? Let's discuss in class! 

UPDATE: Also, Twitter released its version of Google's transparency report yesterday. Check it out here. Any idea why there are so many more requests for Google's data compared to Twitter's?