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 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.