Twitter announces it will begin blocking messages opposed by governments! Boycott of Twitter planned

[Better Believe It]

Twitter Enables Censorship, Boycotts Begin
Reversing its position and heading down a slippery slope
By the Common Dreams staff
January 27, 2012

Social media website Twitter announced Thursday that it will begin blocking certain messages (tweets) on a country-to-country basis. Twitter has been known as a vehicle for free speech as well as a source for social and political organizing -- notably during the protests in 2011 from the Egyptian uprising to Occupy Wall Street. Governments will now request Twitter to take down certain 'illegal' tweets, which will be blocked from its citizens but may still be visible by users outside of the censored country. Many have now raised concerns that this will open the door for repressive governmental censorship, in some ways defeating the benefits of Twitter all together.

This is a sudden reverse in policy for Twitter who has previously boasted its capacity for free speech.

Users across the world are beginning the protest and a Twitter boycott has been planned for tomorrow.

Twitterers have a message: Tomorrow, turn off the tweets.

Read the full article for more information and links on the planned boycott at:

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/27-4

[RKP5637]

1. Twitter will then become a repressive regime in and of itself. IMO Fuck Twitter! An alternative

will be found and will prosper.

[Arkana]

2. This oughta last about as long as Netflix's "HAY GUYS WE'RE SPLITTING UP"

idea.

[Better Believe It]

4. Revolutions against dictatorships are usually described as "riots" by those regimes.

So I'm sure in those cases you're opposed to Twitter blocking messages at the request of repressive regimes.

[moriah]

5. Might I ask why you felt this link was on topic?

Or are you just trying to spam us?