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I'm not a Twitter user, but I wonder whether our Malaysian users are aware of this news and have received the alert. Following new censorship rules in certain countries, unhappy Twitter users have decided to protest by asking all tweeters not to tweet at all on Saturday, 28 January. Probably it's not worldwide and is occurring only in the countries affected by the new rules.
Here's the report:
TWITTER BLACKOUT TODAY IN PROTEST AGAINST NEW COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CENSORSHIP RULES
San Francisco, Jan 28 (TruthDive): Twitter announced that they will censor tweets selectively on a country-by-country basis. The “country-by-country basis” rule states that if they receive a “valid and properly scoped request from an authorized entity,” Twitter will block users from seeing the posts.
It is to be noted that a Delhi court last month had asked 21 social networking websites to remove derogatory content by February 6 this year.
In its blog post, titled ‘Tweets Must Flow’, the San Francisco-based micro-blogging company has said that it could reactively withhold content from users in a specific country if legally required to do so.
“In our continuing effort to make our services available to users everywhere, if we receive a valid and properly scoped request, it may be necessary to re actively withhold access to certain content in a particular country from time to time,” Twitter explained.
The micro-blogging service with over 100 million active users will only block the tweet instead of deleting tweets that violate the user’s country’s laws and it is understandable that the removed content would be available to the rest of the world.
“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice,” Twitter said in its blog. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with misers when we can’t.”
“Our goal is to respect our users’ expression, while also taking into consideration applicable local laws,” Twitter’s new rules state. If a tweet has been blocked, Twitter will let the user know they are trying to view censored content. The company insists it is not compromising its commitment to free speech, and in fact this new move is helping continue their “tweets must flow” commitment.
However the users are not happy with the new censorship rules and have decided to protest by asking all tweeters not to tweet at all on Saturday, January 28. Protesters are using the hashtag #TwitterBlackout to organize the boycott.
There were speculations that the new censorship rules was ordered by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alaweed bin Talal, who recently invested in Twitter.
[Source: TruthDive]
San Francisco, Jan 28 (TruthDive): Twitter announced that they will censor tweets selectively on a country-by-country basis. The “country-by-country basis” rule states that if they receive a “valid and properly scoped request from an authorized entity,” Twitter will block users from seeing the posts.
It is to be noted that a Delhi court last month had asked 21 social networking websites to remove derogatory content by February 6 this year.
In its blog post, titled ‘Tweets Must Flow’, the San Francisco-based micro-blogging company has said that it could reactively withhold content from users in a specific country if legally required to do so.
“In our continuing effort to make our services available to users everywhere, if we receive a valid and properly scoped request, it may be necessary to re actively withhold access to certain content in a particular country from time to time,” Twitter explained.
The micro-blogging service with over 100 million active users will only block the tweet instead of deleting tweets that violate the user’s country’s laws and it is understandable that the removed content would be available to the rest of the world.
“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice,” Twitter said in its blog. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with misers when we can’t.”
“Our goal is to respect our users’ expression, while also taking into consideration applicable local laws,” Twitter’s new rules state. If a tweet has been blocked, Twitter will let the user know they are trying to view censored content. The company insists it is not compromising its commitment to free speech, and in fact this new move is helping continue their “tweets must flow” commitment.
However the users are not happy with the new censorship rules and have decided to protest by asking all tweeters not to tweet at all on Saturday, January 28. Protesters are using the hashtag #TwitterBlackout to organize the boycott.
There were speculations that the new censorship rules was ordered by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alaweed bin Talal, who recently invested in Twitter.
[Source: TruthDive]
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