Categorie: censorship

Twitter Puts Its DMCA Takedown Requests Up For All To See

censorship, dmca, social, TC, Twitter

twixYesterday’s announcement that Twitter would be selectively censoring tweets based on country was not well-received. But part of that announcement was the assurance that the process would at least be transparent. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

They also mentioned that they were working with Chilling Effects to make notices and orders sent to Twitter publicly available. At the time of the post yesterday, the site wasn’t up yet, but you can now browse it at chillingeffects.org/twitter.

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Twitter Changes The “Contours” Of Censorship With Country-By-Country Blocking

censorship, Opinion, social, TC, Twitter

twixTwitter has announced in a blog post a glorious new ability: “the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” At last!

There are two ways of looking at this new “ability,” one optimistic and one pessimistic. One is that Twitter is now more able to effectively tailor itself to the needs of certain countries. The other is that Twitter is now more able to effectively tailor itself to the needs of certain countries.

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If President Obama Doesn’t Like What You Tweet You Could Wind Up In Jail #NDAA

censorship, NDAA, Social Media, Twitter

Yes, you read the title right. Land of the Free? President Obama, president of the “land of the free” gave the country a new year’s present. On December 31st the American Civil Liberties Union published this: “President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law. As you know, […]

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