Twitterleaks and the Streisand Effect

18 Outubro 2017, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott

Explanation (from texts in the anthology) of the attempts to sue the users of the Internet platform Twitter for being "secondary publishers" of injuncted material. Demonstration of how this is impossible in practice. Analysis of a text about the suicide of a "Twitter Troll" who had abused the parents of Madeleine McCann online. Analysis of the text that gave rise to the term "the Streisand Effect".