Unexpected Dangers of Twitter - Nicole Wong

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Corporate_Responsibility_and_Complicity

Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, examines the challenges associated with rapidly adapting to new communication mediums like Twitter. She explains that society no longer has enough time to figure out the rules because periods between innovations continue to shrink.

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Nicole Wong is Associate General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google. Prior to joining Google, Wong was a partner at the law firm of Perkins Coie, LLP, where she led a team of attorneys specializing in Internet law, including online content regulation, intellectual property, privacy, security and eCommerce. In addition to her practice, Wong is a frequent speaker and author on issues related to law and technology. Wong previously served as co-chair of the Practising Law Institutes Internet Law Institute and as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she taught media law. Wong speaks at national and international conferences regarding Internet issues and, in April 2000, testified before the House of Representatives regarding the Fourth Amendment and the Internet. She received her law degree and a Masters degree in Journalism from the UC Berkeley.

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[freesk8]

The risk is that someone will try to outlaw or restrict free speech on the internet, in the name of protecting us from ourselves or from others.

But this would be a very bad deal, for the same reason that we value the 1st Amendment as applied to the press and standing on street corners passing out flyers.

Outlawing or restricting twitter by law would be Orwellian.

Twitter doesn't kill people, people kill people.

If you take away twitter, people will find other ways to hurt people.

Leave us free.

[yvetteaonmyown]

Translation:

How do we make more money on twitter and the internet and really guild the millions of people who use them.

[jagara1]

Laaaaaaame - seriously is this the best google can do?

What she said was so vapid that it meant nothing at all...

[NoSoundMind]

She's either a Luddite, a fear monger, or a super-genius.

[badcat1226]

Thats the stupidest thing I've heard all week.

[forgetmepls]

No time is only an excuse...That is 1 of the biggest bullshlt i ever heard...Lol No time...If they had no time, they might as well do not eat or sleep...pure bullshlt

[hairy0pothead]

Look at the guy on the left...

[Orion079]

It reminds me of the 1980's, when heavy metal bands were being dragged into court because somebody's dumb kid commit suicide after listening to one of their songs.

But they ignore the fact that millions of people listen to those same songs and are perfectly normal and functional human beings.

[Orion079]

...and lose both.

[numbah1pinoy]

Coudn't agree more.

"Those who value security over liberty, deserve neither" Benjamin Franklin

[81geek]

Ha ha yeah. quick on your feet there yvette. Good call.