Safer Internet Day: protecting the global town square of Twitter
by Nick Pickles Head of public policy at Twitter UK from Technology | The Guardian on (#13BVZ)
Twitter has faced pressure to provide better protection for users who are abused and bullied on the network. Policy head Nick Pickles explains its new plans
A child born today will grow up in a world powered by data. They will be surrounded by powerful digital technologies, while the world's information is digitised, analysed and transmitted around them in seconds. In the first week of their life, 3.5bn tweets will be sent.
They will grow up in a world that seems much smaller, as voices from the furthest corners of the earth are broadcast beyond national boundaries with a click. Another billion people will get online before they graduate from university.
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