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kaszz writes:

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.

1. "kaszz" - http://soylentnews.org/~kaszz
2. "Twitter made a public stance in 2011 to remain a platform for free speech" - https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/18/twitter-ceo-costolo-on-apple-privacy-free-speech-and-google-far-from-ipo/
3. "block a pro-Ukrainian Twitter feed" - http://mashable.com/2014/05/19/twitter-blocks-account-russia/
4. "demands" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-turkey-twitter-idUSBREA4K0PN20140521
5. "Pakistani bureaucrat's request" - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/world/asia/twitter-agrees-to-block-blasphemous-tweets-in-pakistan.html
6. "censored" - https://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=826
7. "these capitulations" - https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-censors-political-accounts-2014-5
8. "I2P-Messenger" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P#Instant_messaging

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