Disturbing development at Twitter: countries will silence tweets
Here’s Twitter: “Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. 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. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.” This is not a good thing.
Seriously you guys, sign a petition (I’ll post a link)! Would Arab Spring have happened if Twitter decided to selectively censor certain countries? This reeks of Colonialism to me.
To quote Occupy: shit’s fucked up and bullshit.
At least they’re telling you they’re censoring? It really seems like Twitter tried hard to come up with the least...