- I linked to and endorsed my colleague Paul Smalera's post about Twitter censorship which elicited some dissenting responses in terms of how lightly we should take or accept Twitter's new censorship policy.
If you haven't already seen it, @smalera's reasoned analysis of the Twitter censorship fury is a must read reut.rs/xEcIha- Twitter's censorship is a gray box of shame, but not for Twitter | Paul ...1 day ago ... Twitter's announcement this week that it was going to enable country-specific censorship of posts is arousing fury ar...
@AntDeRosa "grow up" and accept censorship as a given? So condescending, & doesn't address why this is happening: staff+offices overseas.- @AntDeRosa the difference in reactions from US press and those in MX, mideast, etc is notable. Surprised so many here are eager to defend.
- @AntDeRosa some important points missing in the piece, and your defense. It's an issue because of physical expansion to foreign countries.
- @AntDeRosa if Twitter were only subject to US laws, this would be non-issue. Once physically inside another nation, another matter.
- @AntDeRosa clarification: not having a physical location and on-the-ground staff in speech-hostile countries.
- @AntDeRosa last I checked, Twitter was already used by people around the world, despite not having offices/staff in each nation.
- @AntDeRosa the EFF piece dug into some of what I'm highlighting here. We may write a bit more about the lost nuances on BB soon, too.
- @AntDeRosa I do agree the partnership w/@ChillingEffects is good, & more than Facebook would do, etc. Still doesn't make this positive news.
- @AntDeRosa nothing. But then, Twitter would not be taking an active role in censorship.
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