Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by paganel on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:14AM (#21267564)

I’m pretty sure Twitter may be seen by some Russian politicians as “detrimental to Russia’s sovereignty” and I’m also pretty sure that the Russian social networks based and working from Russia do in fact respect Russian laws (the same discussion goes for China). I’m also pretty sure that a lot of the recent US foreign involvement can be seen as “rogue”, even by some of the US allies (the most recent and famous example being the Iraq war, with the more recent Syria involvement also being not very well thought out, hence the hasty and sudden pull-out).

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by ben_w on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:41AM (#21268304)

> I’m pretty sure Twitter may be seen by some Russian politicians as “detrimental to Russia’s sovereignty”

For what it’s worth, so do I — and I’m not saying that to support them, I don’t like what I see of the behaviour of the Russian government.

For about the last decade, I’ve been of the opinion that the free an open border that is the internet is incompatible with current attitudes towards sovereign control of what happens within a particular national border. Sovereignty includes the ability to limit things, including things other people (like me) don’t want limited. Copyright, “immoral” substances or sexual acts, defamation, revealing state secrets.

I have a question: if a Spanish person living in Spain publishes a South African state secret, has an offence been committed?

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