On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 10:39:06AM +0100, Nariman Gharib wrote:
> what solution do you have for solve this problem?
Don't use Twitter.
Yes, I'm quite serious. Twitter has clearly stated that they're delighted
to provide censorship-on-demand for any country that asks nicely:
http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-censors-political-accounts-2014-5
and even some that don't ask nicely:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140521/08242627307/pakistan-internet-content-regulator-asks-twitter-to-take-down-blasphemous-search.shtml
and it's only going to get worse:
http://gigaom.com/2014/05/21/twitters-selective-censorship-of-tweets-may-be-the-best-option-but-its-still-censorship/
because Twitter wants to do business in those countries, like selling
data on users to advertisers:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/16/3427404/twitters-acquisition-of-gnip/
Consider: if Twitter is so ready, willing and able to cave in to these
demands, what possible reason is there to think that they won't give in
just as quickly to *other* demands -- like for a data dump on all the
users in a particular country or following particular accounts or using
particular tags, including their login history with IP addresses, OS
fingerprint, and everything else that they have on them?
To borrow a phrase, it's just...good business.
---rsk
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