Twitter Censorship

Twitter agreed to delete tweets within countries that request it. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss this government requested censorship on The Young Turks.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/tech/twitter-deleting-posts/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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[churchofstfu]

Supporting censorship in this way is a terrible idea. It's potentially worse than the service shutting down altogether.

Why?

Because if the service is stopped, people will be aware they're being censored. If it's being quietly censored on behalf of a government, people will believe they are alone in their dissent, and it will create an illusion of unity. People will be less likely to seek out alternative, non-censored forms of communication.

Reject censorship. Always.

[BIGBABYZIP]

IF YOUR A TWITTER YOUR A TWIT.

[orbitfold]

Of course it is better to be banned in the whole country. At least that makes a point. It also makes your company look good. And it makes the people in that country even more pissed of at their government.

[MyTemporaryAccount88]

Just remember everyone, this is only for poor countries, twitter will never be censored in the US or a EU-country.

Not saying twitter's important for democracy, just saying it's a good thing we don't imagine these types of stories happening in the west.

[HashRash87]

Twitter is a private company and can do whatever the hell it wants. Governments are not allowed to censor (ideally). Privately owned companies, it's their own business.

[turnoffthetv]

They already censor now - they blocked the trending topic about Twitter being censored, ironically....  Epic fail. TYT you're being waaaaaaay too forgiving.

[deimos93UK]

@V1nn1ePJ Word filters. If all tweets including the words Kim Jon-Il must be moderated before being released, any dissenting voices can be weeded out before going public then censorship can easily be enforced.

[V1nn1ePJ]

how can they censor if millions of people tweet the same stuff out at the same time.

[dizasteroid7]

the protest information about the ndaa is actively being censored from twitter. people have resorted to using N@DAA in tweets to fool the censors. it seems to be working.

[Shadowlit001]

Fuck censorship, it shits on basic human rights.

[miminetwork]

Dude. Tsk.

[TheTruePooka]

So the rest of the world will be able to get tweets from America when our government censors them?

That's something I suppose.