[liberationtech] Twitter May Censor Tweets in Individual Countries

[Kate Krauss]

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948, applies to all countries), says this:


Article 19.
	• Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

These are not arbitrary standards. What Twitter is planning to do is a human rights violation.  It's no different than if they went into other countries to censor the newspapers.


Kate Krauss
Executive Director,
The AIDS Policy Project

On Jan 27, 2012, at 8:54 AM, frankltd at fastmail.co.uk wrote:

> However, will Twitter country specific censorship be as transparent as
> being able cross check with take down notices such as these:
> https://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512c/notice.cgi ?
> 
> Frank
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Marc" <marc at let.de>
> To: liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:44:32 +0100
> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Twitter May Censor Tweets in Individual  
> Countries
> 
> They are trying to solve the problem of content that is illegal in some
>> places, but not
>> in others. As far as I understand, previously, they removed such content
>> completely. Now, they can at least pretend not to display it in certain
>> countries and keep it up in others
> 
> 
> I think this is an infinite loop
> 
> https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html
> 
> 
> :(
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