January 27, 2012
"Twitter’s latest policy is purposefully designed to allow Twitter to exist as a platform as broadly as possible while making it as hard as possible for governments to censor content, either tweet by tweet or more, all the while giving free-speech advocates a lot of tools to fight censorship."

Why Twitter’s new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates | technosociology (via bijan)

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Couldn’t agree more.  It’s a really complex issue for Twitter, but I think they are doing the best they can in an unfair world.  Read this, it’s short and makes some good points:  

http://techpresident.com/news/21692/why-nobodys-mad-twitters-international-censorship-move

(via newsweek)

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    Alright, I’m convinced. Nice job, Twitter.
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