Source: John Flanagan, Wired
Twitter has always had an obligation to remove illegal content; their new policy simply ensures prohibited tweets disappear only within the borders of the offended country.
Tag Archives: Twitter
How to avoid Twitter censorship
March 16, 2012 – 10:58 pm
Twitter suspends four accounts critical of Sarkozy
February 20, 2012 – 2:26 pm
Source: Glyn Moody, techdirt
Nicolas Sarkozy, who hopes to be re-elected as French President this year, seems to have little love for the Internet.
Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears
February 19, 2012 – 11:00 am
Source: Joseph Menn, Reuters
This week’s revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies.
Twitter stores full iPhone contact list for 18 months, after scan
February 14, 2012 – 1:01 pm
Source: David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
Twitter Inc. has acknowledged that after mobile users tap the “Find friends” feature on its smartphone app, the company downloads users’ entire address book, including email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for 18 months.
Why Twitter’s censorship plan is better than you think
January 31, 2012 – 3:01 pm
Source: Omar El Akkad, The Globe and Mail
Last week, Twitter ignited a censorship debate in a big way, after the company announced a new policy that effectively allows it to block certain Tweets (and, more disturbingly, certain Twitter accounts) only in particular parts of the world.
Twitter’s early-bird special on censorship
January 31, 2012 – 2:23 pm
Source: Rob Beschizza, BoingBoing
Last week, Twitter announced plans to censor tweets in specific countries, but only to local readers. At the same time, it committed itself to publishing each act of censorship at the Chilling Effects clearinghouse.
Thailand government endorses Twitter’s censorship feature
January 30, 2012 – 3:09 pm
Source: Jon Russell, The Next Web
Twitter’s controversial move towards enabling the censorsing of tweets has gained the backing of its first international government, after authorities in Thailand publicly endorsed the introduction.
Twitter reveals year’s worth of DMCA takedown notices
January 27, 2012 – 3:56 pm
Source: Jon Brodkin, ars technica
On almost any given day, Twitter receives a handful of requests to delete tweets that link to pirated versions of copyrighted content—and quickly complies by erasing the offending tweets from its site.
Twitter sets up system to block posts by country
January 27, 2012 – 11:18 am
Source: Loretta Oretta, The Wall Street Journal
Twitter Inc. says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression as a human right—reflecting the difficult ethical questions facing Internet companies.
Google’s Blogger follows Twitter’s lead
January 9, 2012 – 2:33 pm
Source: Google
Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog you’re reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or “ccTLD.”
