Leslie Jones and Twitter's Troll Economics
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/leslie-jones-and-twitters-troll-economics?mbid=rss
The debate over whether Twitter was wrong to ban Yiannopoulos
has an obvious answer: no. Even setting aside the fact that,
as a private company, Twitter has no legal obligation to let
anyone use its service, the activities at issue here--targeted
harassment, as well as posting faked tweets--violated the
company's terms of service, and they weren't speech that any
business would feel obliged to protect. If customers in a
coffee shop behaved as Jones's trolls did, they would
immediately be booted.
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--Lauren--
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