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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 urza9814 on Tuesday May 27 2014, @05:33PM
Not really. Back around maybe 2007 they released version 0.7, which is a completely separate, segregated, incompatible network. The previous network resisted for several years, but did eventually cease to exist. As someone who once did a bit of development on the old one, I tried to get it working again a couple times since, but it doesn't seem to be possible any longer.
So yeah, the administrative part still exists, but that's all. The rest has been scrapped and rebuilt at least once (I lost interest shortly before 0.5 went silent; never could get into the newer network)