Twitter’s chief lawyer, Alexander Macgillivray, talked to The New York Times about what he calls the “church-state divide” between the platform’s business interests and policing users’ content. Macgillivray has fought many a legal battle to protect the speech of Twitter users, and is currently fighting a court order to turn over the tweets of an Occupy protester. However, the platform doesn’t have a perfect track record. In late July, Twitter users Guy Adams’ account was suspended after a Twitter employee monitored his account and encouraged its content partner NBC to file a complaint

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Twitter’s lawyer on the balance between user rights and business interests

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