Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is.

Re:Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is. by pasbesoin on Friday January 27, 2012 @02:13PM (#3519660)

But, as I've pleaded previously, if we force them to shut down the Internet to control the flow of information, everyone will know. If there is an ability to shut off communities selectively, that would be hard to detect.

Although Twitter says they will provide removal requests to the Chilling Effects site, I remain skeptical. If nothing else, this seems akin to the increasingly mandated "protest areas" in the U.S. and elsewhere that are well, or thoroughly, removed from the events being protested.

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Re:Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is. by davewiner on Friday January 27, 2012 @02:32PM (#3519760)

I'm sure there are requests that governments can make that Twitter will not be able to report to Chilling Effects.

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Re:Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is. by stfu on Friday January 27, 2012 @05:12PM (#3520423)

Dave: The EC2 tutorial is nicely done. But the problem of setting up an individual communication island seems that "they" will come for those people "personally". While using an existing platform people can "hide" behind proxies, open wlans and so on the required money trail for bringing a personal system online makes the "rule breaker" much more identifiable.

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Re:Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is. by biafra on Saturday January 28, 2012 @08:48AM (#3522047)

Only if those request come from the US-Government.

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