On Twitter, Hate Speech Bounded Only by a Character Limit - The New York Times

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Summary:

Mr. Goldberg says he is torn about what Twitter should do, given that its cause — openness and free speech — is a reason he and so many other journalists are drawn to the service. “That’s the fundamental problem,” he told me. “At a certain point I’d rather take myself off the platform where the speech has become so offensive than advocate for the suppression of that speech.”

Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/business/media/on-twitter-hate-speech-bounded-only-by-a-character-limit.html?utm_source=digg

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Date tagged:

10/03/2016, 16:20

Date published:

10/03/2016, 12:20