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January 28th 2012

Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy

Reblogged from courtenaybird|44 notes |# Comments

Paul Higgins: This does not sound too good

courtenaybird:

Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.

“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.”

Posted at 7:37am.

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    This is not free internet....wants their own ideals to rule the world. That is why...
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    Looks like I might be saying goodbye to twitter soon.
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    After looking at the article, it looks like this is actually an improvement on their previous actions regarding...
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    Twitter will microcensor in certain countries.
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    But i bet they won’t do anything about the spam.
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    oops here we go…
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    Wow excuse me haven’t we been fighting internet censorship and by...not just govt. bills...
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  24. emergentfutures reblogged this from courtenaybird and added:
    Paul Higgins: This does not sound too good
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    I’m skeptical about this since I really don’t think Twitter themselves are doing this. I
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