Abstract
I. Introduction
II. The Benefits and Hidden Costs of Expanded Social Media Access ... A. Race, Class, and Internet Access ... B. The Persistence of the Digital Divide ... C. The Social Media Digital Divide ... D. The Benefits of Increased Social Media Access ... 1. The Internet as an Engine of Equality ... 2. Providing Economic and Educational Opportunities ... 3. Building Job Networks ... 4. Improved Public Engagement … E. The Hazards of Increased Social Media Access ... 1. The Difference Between Public & Privacy Settings ... 2. Harmful Social Media Disclosures ... 3. Social Media Trolling by Colleges
III. Social Media’s Providers Incomprehensible Terms of Use and Privacy Policies ... A. Asymmetrical Terms of Use: A Case Study of BlackPlanet ... B. The Reading Problem in America ... C. The Incomprehensibility of the Big Five Social Media’s Terms of Use ... 1. Social Media Users Do Not Read TOU ... 2. Reading Comprehension Varies by Social Class … 3. TOU Are Objectively Difficult to Read ... 4. TOU Require a High School Graduate Reading Level ... 5. Readability of Liability Limitation Clauses ... 6. Privacy Policies of the Big 5 Social Media Sites … 7. Three Proposals to Protect Social Media Privacy for the Poor ... a. A Plain Language Statute for Social Media Contracts ... b. Adopting Opt-In Default to Sharing Public Information ... c. Limited Right of Erasure
IV. Conclusion
Recommended Citation
Thomas H. Koenig and Michael L. Rustad,
Digital Scarlet Letters: Social Media Stigmatization of the Poor and What Can Be Done,
93 Neb. L. Rev. 592
(2014)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol93/iss3/3