I will try to find u gen counsel privacy name in meantime Marc Rotenberg likely to have it and/or Jules, both CC'd above.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Uncle Zzzen <unclezz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Warning for the politically-correct: this message contains the N-word. I > believe it is in context :) > > I'm sorry I didn't respond to this in time and I now don't have links to > the tweets I mention, but I'm pretty sure other people on the list had > similar experiences. > > In short: Twitter is excluding tweets by me and my friends based on > arbitrary (until proven otherwise) criteria. Here are 2 incidents. > > 1) The N-word incident > About a month ago, @MrChuckD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D ) > has tweeted that in his opinion, Twitter should censor tweets containing > the N-word. Me and another friend (independently of each other) have > replied. > * I said something like "if you don't oppose censorship, you don't deserve > to be called a nigger" > * My friend said something like "and that's from someone who has a song > called [I don't wanna be called] yo nigga" > i.e. the n-word was "misspelled" in that case :) > > Note: The content of these tweets is not brought here in order to express > or debate our opinions or style (we're both huge fans BTW), but to show > what might have triggered censorship filters (if that is the case), and the > actual semantics of the tweet. > > We were then IMing about this to each other, and found out that when > looking at @MrChuckD's tweet (where all replies can be seen), none of us > could see our tweets or each other's. > > 2) The Bitcoin incident > A merchant friend has tweeted something as "we now accept #bitcoin [+ link > to "buy" page]" > > Nobody (including the person who tweeted this) could see the tweet at the > #bitcoin hash tag. #bitcoin seemed to be fairly active during that time and > there were tweets within minutes (maybe even seconds) before and after that > tweet. > > Now the first incident is alarming enough IMHO (I'm actively considering > moving my "business" to the identi.ca/OSub world), but I could live > without using the N-word (and half of my forking vocabulary) if there was a > "Twitter Censorship Handbook" or "Newspeak Dictionary" I could consult > (although from a usability perspective, I'd prefer getting a "please > rephrase that" pop-up). But the second incident gives me the creeps: > * What the fork WAS wrong with that tweet? > * Maybe it's a bug? > * Maybe twitter's filtering algorithm was hacked by competitors of that > merchant? > * Is there a way to contest such a decision (or even get an admission from > twitter that a tweet of mine WAS blocked, and preferably why)? > > If twitter is a platform that is supposed to mobilize future "Arab > Springs", we have a real problem here - because the alternative is facebook > :) > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- -- Lisa M. Brownlee, Esq. Mexico Skype: lisa.m.brownlee lmbscholar...@gmail.com lmbconta...@yahoo.com Author's website at West Thomson Reuters<http://west.thomson.com/store/authorbio2.aspx?r=4889&product_id=15033039&aurec=2000017572Auth> About my Law Journal Press treatise<http://www.lawcatalog.com/product_detail.cfm?productID=15196&setlist=0&return=search_results&CFID=20088542&CFTOKEN=b6ddabf982b888e4-2F42CE2A-B3D2-E07B-503BCB3A910E5EEC> Facebook: Lisa M Brownlee<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/profile.php?id=1691642784&sk=info> Author of: Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Corporate Transactions: Investment, Risk Assessment and Management (West Thomson Reuters) Assets & Finance: Audits and Valuation of Intellectual Property (West Thomson Reuters) Federal Acquisition Regulations: Intellectual Property and Related Rights (Law Journal Press)
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