stfuconservatives: timekiller-s: rubyvroom: mohandasgandhi: reuters: 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.

stfuconservatives:

timekiller-s:

rubyvroom:

mohandasgandhi:

reuters:

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.