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Twitter to censor tweets - FoolsLove - 2012-01-27
Doesn't really fall under the ACTA/SOPA/PIPA category.. so I've made a thread for it. I got this email
Quote:Derek,
Oh no! Reuters, CBS, and other outlets are reporting that Twitter is going to start censoring tweets in certain countries:
Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.
Please click here to sign our open letter and urge Twitter to reverse its decision to start censoring.
And this quote is just tragic, as Twitter tries to rationlize away restrictions on speech:
"As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday.
From the Middle East, to Occupy, to SOPA and PIPA, the importance of open platforms like Twitter couldn't be more clear than it is today.
Will you help fight back, by signing our open letter to Twitter and asking them to reverse course? Just click here.
Nope, it never ends.
-Demand Progress
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-27/twitter-censor-tweets/52811702/1
http://www.newsday.com/business/twitter-may-censor-tweets-in-individual-countries-1.3482966
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/27/twitter-new-censorship/
Twitter to censor tweets - Corn - 2012-01-27
I'm betting it has to do with
1) China
2) the countries in the Arab Spring (is it still going on?)
Twitter to censor tweets - Sarah - 2012-01-27
It has to do with places like Germany that have anti-nazi laws. So they'll be censoring tweets in those regions ONLY that fall under those specific parameters.
Twitter to censor tweets - DrRusty - 2012-01-27
I'm not too sure this is something to get upset about. Some countries feel differently about some things and Twitter is just trying to keep itself out of the fire.
A man proposing marriage to a women might be normal here but considered a hell worth atrocity somewhere else.
Twitter to censor tweets - FenixR - 2012-01-27
They must censor themselves if and only IF the country they try to use their plataform as some censor laws in place.
If the country dont have any kind of censor law then that would be a reason of concern.