In recent months, there's been a spate of tech companies publishing their staff demographics. We've taken the liberty of turning all of them into pie charts -- for gender -- and bar graphs -- for ethnicity -- for easy comparison.…
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Twitter’s challenge for 2013: Resisting state demands for censorship
As Twitter becomes an increasingly global media entity -- and one that controls its own platform -- it is running into demands from governments in countries like France and Germany to censor or block access to certain kinds of speech. How will it respond?…
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An article at Jezebel identifies high-school students who posted racist tweets in the wake of the election, raising a number of questions about what we consider to be an appropriate response to that kind of behavior, and when the cure is worse than the disease.…
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