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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.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 27 2014, @05:17AM
Did I mention that centralization is the least of Twitter's problems? I mean, centralize what? It is, after all, Twitter!!! I oft like the quote the line from the Ghostbusters Movie (the one with Mortensen Vigo in it), where the flunky says, quote "You are like the buzzing of flies to him!!!" So it is with Twitter to every sane person on the planet. Twitter users are Twits who cannot express concepts in more than 140 characters, and so are excluded from the Monty Python "Upper Class Twit" Olympics. I will definitely report this to the Ministry of Silly Walks, since it does not seem to be approved by Central Authorities. And by the way, why do we even bother?