June 2011

I Obot?

by Karoli on June 24, 2011 · 52 comments

It’s time to address this once and for all. Here are a couple of things about me that you can count on. First, when I criticize the President, I endeavor to do so in a constructive way. Second, I will give this administration the benefit of the doubt. Third, there is never going to be [...]

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Free Speech Gone Crazy

by Karoli on June 21, 2011 · 0 comments

Right after I posted Twitter’s response, I ran across this article about two school speech/social media cases decided by the courts recently. In one case, it was Facebook commentary about a school principal that was pretty mild and expressive of the student’s personal opinion. No problem on that one. But this one has more parallels [...]

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Post image for Twitter responds. Predictably.

In response to my report, Twitter sent this reply. My responses are in italics: It appears your report relates to Tweets that display “RT” next to your username, along with name-calling or potentially inflammatory content. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. [Thank you for that] Retweets on Twitter.com are published with a unique [...]

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