To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question
The UK’s Director of Public Prosecutions has released guidelines on when social media users should be prosecuted. But there are still not adequate guarantees for freedom of expression, writes Dominic Burbidge.
The Future of Free Speech
Aryeh Neier, human rights lawyer and president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations speaks about the future of free speech.
When an iPhone can be dangerous
The speed and ubiquity of mobile devices have changed the context of "hate speech" online, writes Peter Molnar.
Net both liberates and suppresses
Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: the Dark Side of Internet Freedom, says that the internet has a liberating effect but has also boosted the power of governments to spy on citizens, spread propaganda and engage in cyberattacks.
Evgeny Morozov on the dark side of internet freedom
Author Evgeny Morozov highlights the dangers that sometimes emerge when governments and corporations harness the internet to serve their own objectives.
Even malicious tweets need protection
A 17-year-old was arrested under the 1988 Malicious Communications Act for sending offensive tweets to Olympic diver Tom Daley. Brian Pellot explores the law and the case.
Storyful: verifying citizen journalism
Malachy Browne, news editor at Storyful, explains how the social media news agency validates news content sourced from the real-time web.
A student’s racist tweets
Liam Stacey, a 21-year-old student, was sentenced to 56 days in prison for posting racially offensive comments on Twitter, writes Maryam Omidi.
The Berlin Twitter Wall v the Great Firewall of China
In 2009, the Chinese authorities blocked access to the Berlin Twitter Wall from within China following a flood of tweets calling for an end to internet censorship, writes Judith Bruhn.
The trial of Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Sawiris was accused of contempt for tweeting an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively sporting a bushy beard and veil, writes Jacob Amis
A Saudi blogger’s “blasphemous” tweets
As of August 2012, Saudi Arabian writer Hamza Kashgari faced a trial for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter, writes Brian Pellot.
Tim Wu on Twitter, Facebook & net neutrality
The author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires tells us why Facebook should not go into China and why Twitter's new take-down policy may harm the microblog.
Twitter’s new censorship policy
Twitter's plans to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis led to an angry backlash by users. Judith Bruhn looks at the microblog's policy in more detail.
