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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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Zombie law example: a Wisconsin law originally from 1849, struck down by Roe (and superseded by a later statute consistent with Roe), is set to revive. nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/… pic.twitter.com/y9HdpfCNEz

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

Here’s a Verge article with video from Amazon of its voice mimicry prototype — a deceased grandmother reading to her grandson. theverge.com/2022/6/23/2317… Quite a kicker by @jjvincent: pic.twitter.com/HwgS6youJc

About a day ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

This video clip is of a Utah state legislator defending SB 174, Utah’s abortion prohibition “trigger law,” now in force there with the overturning of Roe. The law bans abortion from conception, with the exceptions listed below by @ruthyjacobs. le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/st… twitter.com/bubbaprog/stat… pic.twitter.com/rT1P15MVE2

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

Good questions around search engine policies amidst new anti-abortion laws, from @JillFilipovic. jill.substack.com/p/i-love-yo… pic.twitter.com/zUCEwWYQJw

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

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About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App