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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter announces it will begin blocking messages opposed by governments! Boycott of Twitter planned
Twitter Enables Censorship, Boycotts BeginReversing its position and heading down a slippery slope
By the Common Dreams staff
January 27, 2012
Social media website Twitter announced Thursday that it will begin blocking certain messages (tweets) on a country-to-country basis. Twitter has been known as a vehicle for free speech as well as a source for social and political organizing -- notably during the protests in 2011 from the Egyptian uprising to Occupy Wall Street. Governments will now request Twitter to take down certain 'illegal' tweets, which will be blocked from its citizens but may still be visible by users outside of the censored country. Many have now raised concerns that this will open the door for repressive governmental censorship, in some ways defeating the benefits of Twitter all together.
This is a sudden reverse in policy for Twitter who has previously boasted its capacity for free speech.
Users across the world are beginning the protest and a Twitter boycott has been planned for tomorrow.
Twitterers have a message: Tomorrow, turn off the tweets.
Read the full article for more information and links on the planned boycott at:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/27-4
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Twitter announces it will begin blocking messages opposed by governments! Boycott of Twitter planned (Original Post)
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
OP
Twitter will then become a repressive regime in and of itself. IMO Fuck Twitter! An alternative
RKP5637
Jan 2012
#1
Revolutions against dictatorships are usually described as "riots" by those regimes.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#4
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Twitter will then become a repressive regime in and of itself. IMO Fuck Twitter! An alternative
will be found and will prosper.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)2. This oughta last about as long as Netflix's "HAY GUYS WE'RE SPLITTING UP"
idea.
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Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)4. Revolutions against dictatorships are usually described as "riots" by those regimes.
So I'm sure in those cases you're opposed to Twitter blocking messages at the request of repressive regimes.
moriah
(8,311 posts)5. Might I ask why you felt this link was on topic?
Or are you just trying to spam us?