Sad reality, especially in PR.
Yup in both of my hometowns this applies.
(Source: tastefullyoffensive)
A change in policy: 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.
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.
Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries
Not cool.
very worrying.
Troubling in light of social media’s role in social/political uprisings in certain nations.
Hm, it doesn’t seem like too complicated of an infrastructure that an ambitious young person wouldn’t be able to make a functional censorship-free alternative.
-Joe
So SOPA and PIPA get sidelined so but they get Twitter to censor stuff. Great job governments this “won’t” come back to bite you in the ass.
Hey, remember after we invaded Iraq and we found all those WMDs…
Y’know the ones that the president, pretty much every other politician, every military general, and every intelligence analyst was CERTAIN were there?
Yeahhh… Now tell me again about the imminent threat of a nuclear Iran.
-Joe
How I feel like this morning about going to class this cloudy,rainy Friday.
Shut down everything.
KYMdb - Hipster
Psh I knew about anaerobic microorganisms before the mainstream reported on it.
(Source: bennyandomar, via lipsyncforyourlife)
Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.
—(via thechocolatebrigade)
THIS. I’m sick of seeing women criticized by their choices by assholes.
(Source: angels-and-angles, via feministsbakecupcakestoo)
