{"id":306,"date":"2012-09-17T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=306"},"modified":"2012-09-17T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:48:20","slug":"on-web-a-fine-line-on-free-speech-across-the-globe-nytimes-com-16-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/09\/17\/on-web-a-fine-line-on-free-speech-across-the-globe-nytimes-com-16-september-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"On Web, a Fine Line on Free Speech Across the Globe &#8211; NYTimes.com, 16 September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCompanies are benevolent rulers trying to approximate the kinds of decisions they think would be respectful of free speech as a value and also human safety,\u201d said Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard.Unlike Google, Twitter does not explicitly address hate speech, but it says in its rule book that \u201cusers are allowed to post content, including potentially inflammatory content, provided they do not violate the Twitter Terms of Service and Rules.\u201d Those include a prohibition against \u201cdirect, specific threats of violence against others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/17\/technology\/on-the-web-a-fine-line-on-free-speech-across-globe.html?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=b648f8e68c-News_Law_Monday_Sept_17_20129_17_2012&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_r=0\">On Web, a Fine Line on Free Speech Across the Globe &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCompanies are benevolent rulers trying to approximate the kinds of decisions they think would be respectful of free speech as a value and also human safety,\u201d said Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard.Unlike Google, Twitter does not explicitly address &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/09\/17\/on-web-a-fine-line-on-free-speech-across-the-globe-nytimes-com-16-september-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}