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A French court ruled today that Twitter must identify its racist tweeters so they can be prosecuted, a decision that the social networking company is still evaluating.
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Interesting article: German judges have also required that Twitter deleted pro-nazi accounts. End of hoster priviledge of not being accountable for content?
Quite critical issue as Twitter's new video service is already showing pornographic content that violated Twitter's guidelines http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57566074-93/pornographic-video-clips-already-showing-up-on-twitters-vine Delete the scoop?
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Are Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr Leading the Way in a Content Censorship Wave? Delete the scoop?
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"The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries."
Note the post gives a bit more detail about how it will wrk: "Every tweet includes fields such as the user’s name, time of the tweet and the tweet’s content. But now it will also include a “withheld_in_countries” field." Delete the scoop?
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Therese's comment: interesting debate for anyone involved in social media "Can we count on communities to self-regulate?" how can people who ublish pictures of other peopl without their consent invoke to right to their own privacy??? Delete the scoop?
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"last week, ... the company took the bold stance that blogs promoting self-harm, including anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation and suicide, would no longer be allowed on its network. ... Today, the company ... explain[s] that it’s not banning blogs that are engaged in “discussion, support, encouragement, and documenting the experiences of those dealing with difficult conditions,” only those that are meant to trigger self-harm. But how will Tumblr know which is which?" Delete the scoop?
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January 27: "Some of the messages Twitter is sending about its new policy on censoring tweets in certain countries seem ambiguous at best." writes ReadWriteWeb
Note: To read a more extensive account in the Wall Street Journal type "Twitter Can Censor by Country" in Google (if you're not a paying subscriber)
The incriminated January 26 post on the Twitter blog http://blog.twitter.com/ is called "Tweets still must flow". It says a.o.: "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression". ... "if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld."
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