Twitter is used by different people for different things. It’s a communication tool for some, a news aggregator for others, and a way to spread a message for individuals and groups around the world. From the perspective of the US government, it can be a beacon of freedom as well as a source of international intelligence, which is why it makes no sense that Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman is leading the charge to have Twitter block propaganda being spread by Islamic extremists. The Senator cites a portion of the Twitter terms of service that states, “You may use the Services…

Now that 90,000 military documents about US military activity in Afghanistan, you can almost be assured that some revelation will come out that will embarrass or worse. But what will Wikileaks do to traditional media? After all, had these documents been leaked by the New York Times or The Guardian, we would have gotten some choice details, but – due to journalistic ethics – would never have seen the full data-set (though, to be clear, Wikileaks has censored names it feels would be endangered if released). Some, like Alexis Madrigal states on the The Atlantic tech blog, feel the rules that state…