[ NNSquad ] "The Delete Squad: Google, Twitter, Facebook and the new global battle over the future of free speech"

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

"The Delete Squad: Google, Twitter, Facebook and the new global battle
over the future of free speech"

http://j.mp/ZwjUDS  (New Republic)

    "As online communication proliferates-and the ethical and financial
     costs of misjudgments rise-the Internet giants are grappling with the
     challenge of enforcing their community guidelines for free speech.
     Some Deciders see a solution in limiting the nuance involved in their
     protocols, so that only truly dangerous content is removed from
     circulation. But other parties have very different ideas about what's
     best for the Web. Increasingly, some of the Deciders have become
     convinced that the greatest threats to free speech during the next
     decade will come not just from authoritarian countries like China,
     Russia, and Iran, who practice political censorship and have been
     pushing the United Nations to empower more of it, but also from a less
     obvious place: European democracies contemplating broad new laws that
     would require Internet companies to remove posts that offend the
     dignity of an individual, group, or religion."

 - - -

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren 
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
_______________________________________________
nnsquad mailing list
http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad