Re:Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is.
by nextparadigms on Friday January 27, 2012 @02:33PM
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Someone was raising the question if there's a coincidence between them doing this now, a month after that Arabian prince invested $300 million in Twitter.
It's probably not a coincidence, but I bet the US Government wanting to censor tweets from certain groups in the Middle East for "spreading propaganda" has a lot to do with it, too. And I'm a lot more worried about that than about a certain country wanting to censor their own people's tweets, because at least then that country's citizens can protest against it. Not much another country can do about US censoring their tweets.
It's probably not a coincidence, but I bet the US Government wanting to censor tweets from certain groups in the Middle East for "spreading propaganda" has a lot to do with it, too. And I'm a lot more worried about that than about a certain country wanting to censor their own people's tweets, because at least then that country's citizens can protest against it. Not much another country can do about US censoring their tweets.