 Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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kudos:4 | Twitter users see different feeds based on where they live Twitter unveils plans on how they will block viewing some tweets based on censorship policies of country the viewer is in. Many are unhappy over this. But seeing how Twitter helped people overturn their leaders in Arab countries, other countries laid down the law to Twitter - screen what we don't like or we shut down your service completely in our countries. Twitter gave in.
»news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-573678···1_3-0-20
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kudos:2 | In the business world, you'd rather have a crippled product out there than none at all. |
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My understanding is that Twitter was already complying with certain government takedown requests. Tweets were removed from the entire network.
The difference now is that the tweets will remain and residents of that country receive a Blocked-Notice about the tweet.
That allows two countermeasures to occur.
1) Country-shifting IP techniques can reveal the tweet.
2) A user can request a user in another country to re-tweet the blocked tweet.
Twitter is also publishing a comprehensive list of takedown notices at chillingeffects.org.
I find Twitter's policy to be excellent. It minimizes the effectiveness of government censorship.
It's superior to the policies of many US internet companies
who can't seem to find enough ways to ingratiate themselves
with heavy handed US gov agencies.
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