Re:Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social
by pakled_engineer on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:08PM
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They are backup accounts, which will explode in usage if access to centralized social media is blocked, or down for scheduled maintenance while some kind of political emergency[1] is happening in Spain.
[1]http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/06/16/us-iran-election-t...
Re:Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social
by the_mitsuhiko on Saturday April 04, 2015 @07:04AM
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> They are backup accounts, which will explode in usage if access to centralized social media is blocked
So pretty much ... never? There is no way a country in the EU will be allowed to block social media.
Re:Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social
by e12e on Saturday April 04, 2015 @11:11AM
(#9321027)
Spain has recently reintroduced some legislation that would've made Franco proud. That said, I doubt they'll block twitter. They'll monitor it, of course -- and they'll probably use radio jamming against demonstrations.
Free, distributed (mesh-net) solutions will only help there, if they can somehow get around the jamming (relatively easy if only cell phone networks are jammed, not sure how likely it is that bluetooth/wlan will/can be jammed as well).
Re:Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social
by riffraff on Saturday April 04, 2015 @12:54AM
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are you really comparing spain to iran? That seems a bit far fetched.
Even the star of this story (Barbijaputa) was suspended from twitter by the company, not by any part of the spanish government (plausibly because of misapplied ToS enforcement, not because of censorship).
Most of the 6k registered users on Quitter Spain are inactive and it has nothing to do with Podemos and the indignados movement (they use Twitter actively along with Facebook). Even the user that started this "false migration" (@barbijaputa) is using Twitter and is inactive on Quitter.