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Kalev Leetaru. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Senior Fellow, George
Washington University, Past Yahoo! Fellow Georgetown University, Google Developer Expert,
Foreign Policy Top 100 of 2013
Write a Response Essay about this article on censorship by Twitter. This means you must comprehend what the author,
Kalev Leetaru is suggesting; you must identify his main idea and infer what his conclusions are in your analysis. Finally,
you must state what you think about the article. “Your reader (your instructor) is familiar with the article, and is
interested in discerning how deeply you have thought about the concepts, values, belief systems and attitudes that exist
at the heart of the work. A response paper is a heartfelt letter to the author, a conversation, a dialogue with the work, a
great idea, the man, the woman behind the artifact. It is a personal statement of one's epistemology, even of one's own
spiritual experience. It is relaxed, clear, uncensored.” From: What A Response Paper Is and Is Not.
1. What (meanings, values, etc.) was the author trying to promote?
2. Who is Kalev Leetaru? * Is he a stakeholder in this issue? Why? Why not? Look up any items in boldface to learn
context (the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be
fully understood and assessed).
3. What is my personal position relative to the author's? Did you learn about this issue of “shadowbanning” for
the first time reading this article? Had you heard of Project Veritas?
4. How has reading and reflecting on this affected my lived world experience?
5. Do you agree that censorship from Social Media platforms like Twitter have gone too far? Have we lost Freedom
of Speech?
6. Your work must be in MLA format meaning it must be double-spaced, and a 12 pts Times Roman font. There is
no set page length for this exercise. You must include your name, instructor name, and the date spelled out: Ex.
June 7, 2015.
Response Essay 3A CM 4