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Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by briandear on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @12:52PM (#4318262)
I wonder if the NBC exec filed the complaint personally. After all, if it was his, 'private' information and email address, then what standing does the NBC intern have who filled the complaint have? Just a concerned citizen? Oh, but it wasn't a private email was it? I'm confused. A person tweets the corporate contact email of an executive and that's not ok? But Spike Lee tweets the personal address of someone he thought was Zimmerman's with the presumption that someone would act on that information and that's ok? Spike Lee potentially endangered a life (the people at address received death threats).. What's the worst that could have happened to an NBC exec-- he gets a strongly worded letter? Twitter should always come out in the side of presuming free speech unless that speech violates the law. Tweeting someone's email address does not meet that standard. And, the fun part is that NBC is a public company. Shareholders technically have a right to information regarding the executive team in the context of their role at the company.

C'mon Twitter, don't be evil.

Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by incongruity on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @12:56PM (#4318297)
I find it somewhat odd to claim a business email address as "personal" contact information. If he puts it out on business cards with company logo on it, or if it's anywhere on the web, it certainly isn't "personal" and it is obviously meant as a means for contacting him about business related things.

I just find this to be a cheap way of shifting the focus away from the public backlash about their crappy programming decisions.

And Twitter has gone along with it. Sigh.

Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by Vivtek on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @03:13AM (#4321578)
Twitter didn't just go along with it - according to NBC, Twitter suggested it.