Paper

ECS 392

Fall 2017

PAPER 10

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Date due: Monday, December 4, at 10:00 pm (via Turnitin).

Length: 600 to 700 words, double-spaced.

Topic: First, read the New York Times article, “Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise”:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/technology/twitter-end-anything-goes.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront

Then, in your paper, answer each of the following questions, providing well-reasoned arguments for each of your answers:

1. Given the social impacts of Twitter discussed in the article, what kinds of power does Twitter exercise?

2. What responsibilities (obligations) come with such power—and to whom are those responsibilities owed?

3. What specific policies should Twitter adopt in fulfilling those responsibilities?