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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 27 2014, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-nobody-hears-it-was-it-said? dept.

Twitter made a public stance in 2011 to remain a platform for free speech, having helped fuel movements such as the Arab Spring. This past week, however, Twitter is shown to have complied with Russian government demands to block a pro-Ukrainian Twitter feed from reaching Russian citizens, with Turkish government demands that it remove content that the Turkish government wants removed, and with a Pakistani bureaucrat's request that content he considers blasphemous and unethical be censored in Pakistan. Given Twitter's role in the democratic uprisings of the past few years, perhaps these capitulations just show that centralized control of information is inherently flawed. Any network under the control of a few individuals may be compromised by non-technical means. Examples like I2P-Messenger may be a necessity.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 27 2014, @04:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 27 2014, @04:12AM (#47735)

    Also in the meatspace there are less and less of parks and other real public spaces where people are more free to do what they want. Instead we get private spaces that masquerade as public spaces, like malls. They key difference is the instant you do something that the powers that be don't like, guards will shut you up and escort you out.

    Free speech is so 1900s. Jackboot on your face is the future.