Social Media and Social Good

First social networking sites would encourage you to share more, wanting you to help make the world more open. Then they would start censoring contents, thus limiting visibility of posts that are supposed to be available and open for everyone to see. With Twitter censoring tweets and Google favoring its own products with “Search Plus your World” and Facebook changing the interface without giving its users the option to opt out or retain…

What is SOPA and what, there’s also PIPA? Most people might have seen a mention of SOPA from their Facebook and Twitter friends by now but may not have fully understood the dire effects and dangers of the said bill. The Wall Street Journal has released a comprehensive guide for us to better understand the two bills and below are some of the highlights: It will undermine free speech and due process, says one…