Twitter Argument Leads to Alleged Murder
Posted by Tracy Williams in death, Twitter
A man was murdered and police want to subpoena the Tweets between the alleged murderer and the victim. It's happened on other social networking sites before. Some people think the companies have some responsibility in helping prevent these situations while others think the companies have no responsibility in it at all. Read more. . .
I think it would have to be closer to the latter. The sites are simply platforms. Nobody accuses Verizon, Motorola, Apple or Sprint for crimes that were planned using their products or services. In companies that stand in brick and mortar, there are questions that may be posed to the owners as would be to anyone else who may be able to shed some insight into what happened, but they shouldn't be held accountable for the actions of others.
The sites should be expected to release the information that the police are looking for but nothing more.