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Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by ceomike(m): 6:44pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Social Media Company, Twitter has announced they would start deleting tweets of users in certain country but the tweet would remain undeleted in the rest of the world. This is a major move by twitter to curb tweets that could prove harmful to their usage in those countries. Most countries have limits and twitter is just obeying that. “We hold freedom of expression in high esteem and work hard not to remove Tweets,” Twitter spokeswoman Jodi Olson wrote in an e-mail to CNN. “And just to be clear, this is not a change in philosophy and there are still countries to which we will not go,” she said. As examples of countries where tweets may have to be restricted, Twitter mentioned Germany and France, which ban pro-Nazi content. Twitter will operate in those countries while censoring pro-Nazi tweets, for example. But some countries are so restrictive with freedom of expression that Twitter can’t exist there at all, the company said. “One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice,” Twitter wrote in a blog entry Thursday. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can’t. The Tweets must continue to flow.” But one observer said the move is blatant censorship. “There’s no way around that. But alas, Twitter is not above the law,” according to Jillian York, the director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and privacy online. York said she acknowledges that Twitter, like other companies hosting user-generated content, has at some point faced a government order or request to take down content. “Twitter has two options in the event of a request: fail to comply, and risk being blocked by the government in question, or comply (read: censor). And if they have ‘boots on the ground,’ so to speak, in the country in question? No choice,” she wrote. The company is simply “doing its best in a tough situation,” she said. http://www.news4jax.com/news/Technology/Twitter-to-delete-posts-if-countries-request-it/-/4882254/8510896/-/ji3dhp/-/index.html |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by obowunmi(m): 7:27pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Fake news. Can't believe this made the front page. SICK! |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by dustydee: 7:40pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Check CNN. It's on their news. |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by lazinc(m): 7:45pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
obowunmi: Its not fake its in CNN, no go sick die o http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/27/tech/twitter-deleting-posts/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by dipo1: 8:06pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Immediately I read this, I thought of GEJ. I know he is social-networking-site active and probably has received more derision than any body on the internet this year |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by chelseabmw(m): 8:39pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by julioralph(m): 8:55pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
I'm not really suprised, afterall one rich arab dude recently invested 100s of millions of dollars into twitter- they better not shoot themselves in d foot |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by billion11: 9:05pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
This is for real but maybe not as bad as it looks like. Instead of deleting tweets in all countries they will only delete them in countries where they're illegal. |
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Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by Eltonluigi(m): 9:44pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Still on my Facebook, don't like twitter anyways. |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by eghost247(m): 11:04pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
^^^^ your missing out |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by Yeske2(m): 11:07pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
Free speech under threat, don't think i need twitter any longer. Would delete my account right away. |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by kizito96(m): 11:45pm On Jan 27, 2012 |
which are the countries? |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by Slyr0x: 12:19am On Jan 28, 2012 |
Yeske!: Exactly! Not in anyway different from SOPA/PIPA. . Censoring people's tweets. . |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by babarazy: 6:12am On Jan 28, 2012 |
Thank God i hate Twitter. |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by Nobody: 7:13am On Jan 28, 2012 |
so the censorship of the internet is going universal |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by Nobody: 8:05am On Jan 28, 2012 |
... |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by sheyee(m): 8:10am On Jan 28, 2012 |
not a twitter fan anyway |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by eghost247(m): 10:02am On Jan 28, 2012 |
^^^^^ |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by Nobody: 10:41am On Jan 28, 2012 |
what is tweeter? who is following who ? very boring something |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by slimyem: 4:26pm On Jan 28, 2012 |
if dm like,make dm delete the whole site. Aint a fan anyways! |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by iGuru1(m): 11:18pm On Jan 28, 2012 |
www.yookos.com its cool, has more features than twitter, i used it. www.plus.google.com google is the king, start circling now with friends. |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by eemmason(m): 11:55am On Jan 29, 2012 |
I knew twitter wasn't above the law, let them do w@ they hafta do, i smell boredom coming, |
Re: Twitter To Start Deleting Tweets by mrperfect(m): 2:54pm On Jan 31, 2012 |
Let hope that this won't lead to something else. |
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