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F-T: Don’t sue over tweets

November 26th, 2012 | by z | published in Future of the Internet, news, twitter | 7 Comments

I just published a short piece in the F-T in the wake of legal threats against users who tweeted or retweeted a link to a BBC report of child abuse that turned out to be wrong. Here’s the full text — Those who didn’t see the false child abuse accusations against Lord Alistair McAlpine on […]

Breaking the 140 barrier

June 24th, 2009 | by z | published in Future of the Internet, twitter | 8 Comments

Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. The founders explain that they expected interconnection with mobile phone text messaging — SMS — from the start, and that it could be expensive to have longer tweets broken into mutiple messages when people pay per SMS. As Dom Sagolla explains: Messages longer than 160 characters (the common […]

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@ithizar Yes, that's surely what they'd say, and that might prevail. But the line is blurry when they are clearly conveying a point of view institutionally themselves, and when they have commentators on site often affirming what the speakers are saying.

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The medium-specificity of CDA 230 means that if Right Side is streaming a *physical event* with its own cameras, it's not immunized from liability for lies it passes along. If Right Side is simply rebroadcasting a stream originating on the Internet, CDA 230 would protect it. twitter.com/atrupar/status…

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@artcrimeprof "Mr. Zittrain says 'yes' ... Can someone think of a shorter and possibly more accurate answer than 'yes'?"

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@ThePlumLineGS This sounds right. twitter.com/brianbeutler/s…

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@ThePlumLineGS The previous Congress’s Senate Intelligence Committee, with an R chair and majority, managed to put out a report on election interference that was not fully aligned with conservative radio talking points.

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