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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 Hairyfeet on Tuesday May 27 2014, @06:08PM
Because it brings SMS to the world, and allows a person to send a txt from a phone in a few seconds and have it reach thousands instantly?
Sadly this is EXACTLY the bad attitude I was pointing out and why "free" products never go anywhere, instead of looking at it from a designer perspective and saying "What features can our free product bring that will make users like it more than twitter?" you get elitist assholes like the guy that posted above you about how twitter users are all morons..and then the free community wonders why nobody uses their "free as in freedom" software!
Don't complain when the future is nothing but locked down, corporate controlled, more proprietary than a 1983 PC where everything you do has to go through Corp-Net (and be approved) before it goes anywhere because NOW is the time to change it, NOW when the tech is still up in the air and the users aren't completely locked in and are willing to try anything that comes off as cool and new, but instead all we'll hear from the free community is insults and "they should do things our way". If you don't offer anything truly BETTER than the other guy don't be surprised when nobody chooses your software.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.