Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have made the world smaller, allowing people located on different continents to connect and communicate as if they were next-door neighbors. At times, however, the conversations taking place on these new technology platforms can offend some of their users’ old-world sensibilities, creating consequences that not even the visionaries who created these sites ever imagined. The latest social media uproar surfaced Wednesday, when protesters took to the streets in Pakistan decrying a contest soliciting caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
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Culture Wars vs. Censorship: What's a Social Network to Do?
Posted by: Sidney Hill May 20, 2010 10:34 AMSocial media sites like Facebook and Twitter have made the world smaller, allowing people located on different continents to connect and communicate as if they were next-door neighbors. At times, however, the conversations taking place on these new technology platforms can offend some of their users’ old-world sensibilities, creating consequences that not even the visionaries who created these sites ever imagined. The latest social media uproar surfaced Wednesday, when protesters took to the streets in Pakistan decrying a contest soliciting caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.