SXSW 2012 Panel: How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed
What: a panel discussion enttitled "How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed"
Who: Sam Gregory (WITNESS), Jillian C. York (Electronic Freedom Foundation), Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (Al Jazeera English), and Danny O'Brien (Committee to Protect Journalists)
When: Sunday, March 11, 2012 | 12:30-1:30pm
Where: AT &T Conference Hotel, Salon D, 1900 University Ave., Austin, TX
Facebook helped foment an uprising. Twitter kept the world rapt as revolution unfolded. But for all of their benefits, the use of social networks often puts activists--in Egypt, Syria, China, or even the United States--at great risk. Your privacy policy and terms of use, as well as how you enforce them, could mean life or death for an activist (or an ordinary user) using your site. What can you, the social media company, do to help keep your users safe?