Rick, I think you delete the problem instead of solving it!
On 9 June 2014 11:30, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > 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. >
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