-- Twitter has probably been most famously used to organize political change in the Middle East, so much so that Google launched a "" service specifically to assist Egyptian Twitter users in February when Internet service was blocked.

While governments increasingly acknowledge the power of social networks to influence citizen behavior, their attempts to control how people use them can at times seem somewhat ridiculous. Sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are public, free and open. For an outside entity to proclaim what can and cannot be done on them is like trying to discipline someone else's unruly kid.

That said, the spreading of false rumors or the encouragement of looting is undeniably troublesome for everybody.

What are your thoughts? Is there a place for some amount of government regulation when it comes to social media? Should the dissemination of harmful or incorrect information be punishable?