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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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@abziegler @HarvardLIL Thank you for everything, Adam - you are extraordinary, and I can’t wait to see what you achieve in your next chapter

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@CoreyRobin @TomPepinsky Thanks for this thoughtful reply. You’re right, I’ve been thinking about authoritarianism only in the form of valorizing strength and winning over the weak and “pathetic,” and disavowing legal or structural impediments to same. Which muddles those two categories.

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@TomPepinsky @CoreyRobin … I’m thinking not, and the answer at least might depend on large part on what the facts are around left vs. right individual authoritarian dispositions among voters.

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@TomPepinsky @CoreyRobin Thanks for these threads. I guess both systems and people matter. Suppose Trump wasn’t committed to any policy positions - he just wanted to win the Presidency and can’t much modulate his personality. Could he have won by catering to Democrats instead of Republicans? …

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Every hamster is pretty close to a very brief retirement within the next few years, and can stand to speculate. twitter.com/neal_katyal/st…

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