stfuconservatives:timekiller-s:rubyvroom:mohandasgandhi:reuters:A change in policy: Twitter announce
stfuconservatives:timekiller-s:rubyvroom:mohandasgandhi:reuters:A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countriesNot cool.very worrying.Troubling in light of social media’s role in social/political uprisings in certain nations.Hm, it doesn’t seem like too complicated of an infrastructure that an ambitious young person wouldn’t be able to make a functional censorship-free alternative.-JoeNo need to worry. They are but paving the way for their own demise. -- source link