(2013-05-01) Internet Free Speech Content Filtering

Jeffrey Rosen notes how decisions about Internet Free Speech are being driven by Silicon Valley Social Media businesses. ome of the Deciders have become convinced that the greatest threats to free speech during the next decade will come not just from authoritarian countries like China, Russia, and Iran, who practice political censorship and have been pushing the United Nations to empower more of it, but also from a less obvious place: European democracies contemplating broad new laws that would require Internet companies to remove posts that offend the dignity of an individual, group, or religion. (Politically Correct)

How far will they defend Free Speech if the result is being blocked in a country?

Content Filtering Brain Fart - Social Media services should have infinite number of Content Filter-s from which a user can select.

• able to select more than 1? intersection or union?
• this wouldn't satisfy the complainants, who want nobody to see the stuff they don't like