Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger and the police in a widely-reported get-together to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the users of social networks, and the rights and responsibilities of the networks themselves, in times of civil disorder. If you take some newspaper headlines at face value, you'd think the very fabric of freedom of speech had been under threat by a government hell bent on shutting down such … [Read more...] about Common sense prevails on social disorder and social networks
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #612: August 15, 2011
Content summary: Shel's on a trip through Asia for IABC; Larry Weber FIR Book Review is up; listener survey update; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: the UK riots and your opinions on the British government's thinking about restricting access to and use of social media, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, LinkedIn's ham-fisted launch of social ads but at least we can opt out, Pollstream promo, Dan York's report, the FCC … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #612: August 15, 2011