When Vijaya Gadde accepted a proposal to join the legal team of Twitter in 2011, the memories of the protests of the Arab Spring were still fresh.

Her father-in-law, who lived in Egypt, was describing the critical situation in Cairo through Tweets and was sending photos of the unrest in Tahrir Square. For Gadde, Twitter was a key means for transmitting the messages that the riots wanted to promote, sparking intense clashes in other countries where voices were silenced. With this as precedent, she is now battling against the ban of her company’s services in Turkey and other countries.

“It showed me how important this service is, since it allows the world to trust it, knowing that the service will never give information to government”, she explains to Bloomberg.

39 year-old Gadde was promoted to Twitter’s general council last August, assuming leadership in legal battles for Twitter over guaranteeing freedom of speech. As the company expands internationally, Gadde works both within the U.S. as well as abroad, with a view to eliminate any censorship at the expense of the service, and user’s rights of privacy.