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1 edit | Twitter divulges new counry-centric Censorship measures. It's better than anything that western.repressive.gov wants to do to us.
said by B-Boing :from now on, when it receives a legal demand to censor a tweet, it will only censor that tweet for users in the country from which the demand emanates.
Other countries' users will still see it. Users in the censored country will see a notice that material has been censored. Additionally, all censorship demands will be archived at Chillngeffects.org
If a tweet is censored in Saudi Arabia, it will be very easy for Saudi users to find non-Saudi users and ask, "What was in that censored message?" and then retweet it. This is much better than the Please-Sir-May-I-Have-Another response; that US ISP's give to any government censorship request.
edit: If anyone cares:
Twitter has published the last year's worth of takedown requests - over 4000 total.
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| But it can be a slippery slope that they're trying to navigate. Twitter receives a "legal" demand from authorities in Country X to redact or censor somebody's tweet from being viewed within that nation... so Twitter will comply because of - what? A concern that they'll be penalized or entirely shut down within that country if they don't comply? And later, when Country X "legally" (within that venue) demands Twitter remove all instances of another tweet regardless of viewing location or nation because those Country X authorities deem it unfit, how will Twitter respond when those same threats of Twitter being penalized or entirely shut down within Country X occur? Because, for some Country X's, you can bet the farm that will eventually occur...
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What's the digital equivalent of the Cayman Islands?:) |
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Thailand is the first country to endorse Twitter's updated censorship policy.
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EFF has their take on the new Twitter policy.
»www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/wh···pression
"Twitter is trying to mitigate these problems by only taking down access to content for people coming from IP addresses the country seeking to censor that content. That's good. For now, the overall effect is less censorship rather than more censorship, since they used to take things down for all users." |
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It should prove "enlightening" to watch the countries that come forth to congratulate Twitter's policy decision. I could probably have compiled in advance a fairly accurate list of such nations, just by studying the human-rights records of their governments. And Thailand would have been on that list...
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