Twitter must be less cowardly and fight for activists

Aug24

by Sindy Cator on August 24, 2015 at 6:56 am

For years, Twitter has been the go-to communication medium for social and political activists and commentators. Its format is well suited to broadcasting ideas to a large audience in real-time. During the Arab Spring, Twitter proved to be an effective tool for organizing protests across countries like Egypt and Tunisia, in an effort to overthrow unjust governments in the Middle East. On a single day in January 2012, there were more than 2.4 million tweets discussing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, which could have wrung the notion of free speech out of the internet. Following major outrage on…