"Andrew McLaughlin was the director of global public policy for Google from 2004 to 2009, and served as a deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States from 2009 to 2011. Says McLaughlin of Twitter, "They start from a free speech, pro-news bias."
"The dilemma is that you're one, a human being, and you don't want to be a jerk. So you can imagine that if you're a family member of this person, by all means you would want the horrific photos of their moment of death taken offline. But, second, the photos are obviously newsworthy. It's awful that these photos were taken, and it's awful that this moment happened, but their very existence is news. It's the sort of thing that moves history.""