Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 of type Panel about Ethics and Social Media

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Sunday 11th March 2012

• How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed

  by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Danny O'Brien, Jillian York and Sam Gregory

  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?

  • Activism
  • Ethics
  • Privacy
  • Social Media

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Salon D, AT&T Conference Center