“Facebook is in a position of power,” says Jonathan Zittrain, the director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society. “At some point Facebook will be asked to shut down a live feed to make sure something doesn’t go viral,” he says. The company “needs to be upfront about the decisions it’s making and the pressures under which it’s making them.”

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“Arresting people for speech is something we should be very careful about,” Bruce Schneier of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told The Intercept.

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For David Weinberger, a researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, transparency about affiliate relationships may not be enough. “Transparency is good but not sufficient because the transparency is revealing that the news medium is in fact taking money from the subject of its journalism,” he says. “And perhaps most perniciously it gives large stores with the most generous affiliate relationships an advantage in the market.”

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“I think within property law and community-driven laws like noise ordinances, there are plenty of ways that law enforcement can manage day-to-day nuisance issues or other complaints by property owners,” says Nathan Freitas, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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