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Fri, Jan 27 2012 06:05:32

Twitter opens Pandora's Box

Twitter has just announced that it will ne introducing functionality whereby it will be able to block certain Tweets is certain countries.

  1. We had a rude awakening this morning when Twitter announced on its blog that it now has functionality to block content.
  2. Grondwerk
    Jesus, is there no end to webservices selling out once they grow big?
    Rustum Kozain
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 01:35:05
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  3. Addieschulte
    Tweet globally, block locally #TwitterCensored
    Addie Schulte
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 01:59:04
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  4. wildebees
    I can't believe they did this “@giantpandinha: Twitter: sellouts. Everybody prepared to move to Identi.ca?”
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  5. wildebees
    In case you missed it, Twitter's announcement on slective country based blocking - Twitter Blog: Tweets still must flow http://j.mp/ykYDY9
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  6. wildebees
    Twitter holds up France & Germany's anti-Nazi regulation for blocking certain keywords in certain countries.
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  7. wildebees
    Twitter says it will be transparent when blocking a Tweet, and will inform a user.
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  8. otherdavidsmith
    @wildebees the real reason is gaining access to china. So plain to see. Cash money will taint anyone's morals.
    David James Smith
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 02:37:33
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  9. Have to say I'm a bit surprised by the move. Yes, perhaps they now can access some markets. But it will increase the demansa form politicians and courts.
  10. jamesrbuk
    Now Twitter have admitted they can impose country-specific blocks, they're all but obliged to - or could be held responsible for injunction
    James Ball
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  11. wildebees
    This Twitter blocking thing will make life allot more complicated for Twitter. Countries will now beat down its door.
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  12. Of course in the Arab world and elsewhere this will be alarming. My guess is that Twitter will not block political content in these countries. Prominent Arab bloggers are rightfully worried though.
  13. Sandmonkey
    Is it safe to say that #Twitter is selling us out? http://blog.twitter.com/2012/01/tweets-still-must-flow.html what if the content provider is from the country oppressing him?
    Mahmoud Salem
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  14. tomgara
    I bet anyone $100 that this twitter "censorship" thing will not be applied to anything in the Arab world. Takers?
    Tom Gara
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 02:20:46
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  15. tomgara
    To be clear, the day Twitter censors a single tweet based on a request from a Mideast government, I will shut down my account.
    Tom Gara
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  16. Others reckoned its merely a case of Twitter growing-up.
  17. GordonMacMillan
    Twitter grows up >> Twitter now able to censor tweets in individual countries http://bit.ly/xrHUGt /@thewalluk
    Gordon MacMillan
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  18. jangles
    Twitter walks a fine line on freedom of expression. A very tough call. http://goo.gl/nMRZY
    Neville Hobson
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  19. It's in democracies that I think we will see the first problems. For example with so-called super-injunctions in then UK.
  20. wildebees
    So in the UK, #superinjunctios will now be applied to Twitter no doubt.
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  21. wildebees
    Will the Trafigura 'outing' have happened, if this selective blocking was in place? Depends how robust the blocking is.
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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  22. wildebees
    In case you forgot, a law firm got a super-injunction, that stopped the press from reporting what had been said in parliament.
    Wessel van Rensburg
    Fri, Jan 27 2012 05:55:07
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