Talking Turkey: Twitter Lawyer Touts Free Speech, Revenue
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When Vijaya Gadde got an offer to join Twitter Inc.’s legal team in 2011, the Arab Spring protests were fresh on her mind.
Her father-in-law, living in Egypt, had posted tweets from Cairo that were critical of then-President Hosni Mubarak and photos of Tahrir Square in turbulence. Gadde saw Twitter as central in spreading messages of revolution and fueling uprisings in other countries where voices had been silenced -- lessons that now inform her work fighting blockades of the company’s microblogging service in Turkey and elsewhere.