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Twitter faces censorship charges, blackout call

Technology Jan. 28, 2012 - 03:00PM JST ( 8 )

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San Francisco-based Twitter stressed the move in no way compromised its commitment to free speech

Twitter pledged to be transparent and said it would post details of any incidents involving the removal of content

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warnerbroJan. 28, 2012 - 05:54PM JST

Tyranny wins again.
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FoxieJan. 28, 2012 - 09:28PM JST

We have all become way to addicted to Twitters, Facebooks and of course the internet. Just shut everything down and we can go back to our cave lifes.
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cwhiteJan. 28, 2012 - 10:33PM JST

well, we all know what this would mean for Japan
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NetNinjaJan. 29, 2012 - 12:12AM JST

Yeah, Twitter needs a full blown blackout. Any company that dares to put profit over the human rights to free speech deserves a blackout.
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David StellsJan. 29, 2012 - 12:17AM JST

@Foxie

We have all become way to addicted to Twitters, Facebooks and of course the internet. Just shut everything down and we can go back to our cave lifes.

If we went back to our cave lives you couldn't have posted your comment about going back to our "cave lifes".

That UNC professor is ridiculous. The Internet is largely exactly a virtual space, and the files on real hard drives it are...guess what..."virtual"! Just a bunch of electronic signals. You can make a file "real" by printing a hard copy, but i seriously doubt most people are printing "The Internet" or more to the point Twitter posts. Harvard Center for Internet and Society? What a joke...Let's study how people use the Internet and how it affects them and society in general...trying asking a 10 year old...just pick one. Plus, this assumes that the way Americans use the Internet is the way the whole world does. Get out of your ivory tower and get a real job. This is truly a case of "those who can't do, teach", which is definitely not the case with all educators, but when your job is to "study" the Internet & Society, you've just entered that realm.
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DeploreJan. 29, 2012 - 06:02AM JST
Ultimately, this comes down to two options:
1. A censored Twitter in totalitarian countries
2. No Twitter in totalitarian countries
Free speech campaigners need to be more realistic.
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aquamanJan. 29, 2012 - 10:39AM JST

Big Brother finds new ways to flex his totalitarian muscles. It's only the beginning. The Great Emancipator, "Honest" Abe Lincoln, did much worse against freedom of speech, shutting down thousands of newspapers, charging editors and writers with treason, many of whom were executed, many more jailed. Abe even suspended habeas corpus. The other lawyer-come-president hailing from Illinois is just following in Abe 's footprints but with a bigger goal in mind, "liberating" the people of the world(Doublespeak ). Enjoy your freedom while you still have some.
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BirkoffHimuraJan. 29, 2012 - 02:53PM JST

what a joke!! and it's not funny by the way, what bothers me it's that it is us people who actually are the country we don't like censorship and prefer freedom of speech but since just a small group "above us in hierarchy" thinks it is not good for them they have the right to ban our thoughts forcing human kind to linger in ignorance, I don't blame them either because it is our fault what's happening and also what will happen.