Susan Brannon
Is the censorship by Twitter connected to the recent SOPA/PIPA proposal? It seems strange that once everyone blacked out and petitioned the SOPA deal, Twitter decided to censor tweets. Who is to really decide what tweets are approved and which ones are not?
As we know, Twitter was a major resource for the gathering of thousands in the Arab Spring and a resource for thousands to keep people on the outside involved in the situation.
As a journalist, twitter is a main aspect for me to follow issues and concerns and I sure that it is the same for activists. So now what? Will I not be able to follow a tweet from Syria because, the U.S. government decides that I, an American should not know what it going on over there? Will I not be allowed to really know what is going on over there?
I have been covering war, physically from the inside and I know that what makes it into mainstream news, is not really the reality many times over and over. I can understand the global governments are concerned on the Arab Spring spreading onto other revolutions in different countries. Well, it already has.
What about our own 99% vs the 1% Wall Street Occupy sit ins? I believe that this censorship should be scraped, done with and it should not have been a nano second of a thought or consideration for Twitter. Here is why:
This takes away from our freedom of expression
The freedom of the right to assemble and organize
The freedom to communicate with those we want to communicate with from any border
Twitter is selling people out who need a place to have a voice
Twitter is committing social suicide
If censorship starts to happen, then we all loose.
Twitter is putting themselves in the place of the government's mercy. Not run by them, but in the end will be run by the government.
Twitter said, "no plans to remove tweets unless it receives a request from government officials, companies or another outside party that believes the message is illegal."
Okay, so the government can tell us what, who and where we can speak.
There will be a Twitter for Democratic countries and a Twitter for the other.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday, November 03, 2011
#occupy bundestag 29.10.2011 berlin - schnellwaschgang
According to Occupy Together.org there are 2, 283 cities worldwide marching against the 1%.
Berlin is one of those cities. The voices of the people are speaking.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Occupy Central ( Hong Kong) - The First Two Hours 佔領中環的首二小時
Occupy Hong Kong
15 October 2011
500 protesters gathered outside the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the 15th and about 40 demonstrators slept overnight in a foyer beneath the Asian headquarters of HSBC Holdings Plc.
Armed with tents, bullhorns and a gas-powered generator used to help them recharge their laptops, the protesters occupied the public thoroughfare under the building as about a dozen police stood by.
the territory has experienced growing inequality, insecurity and poverty in recent decades, affecting the educated middle class as well and threatening the ‘Hong Kong Dream’ of increasing prosperity. The UN Development Programme, Hong Kong has the greatest income inequality of any country in the world.
There is a serious lack of affordable housing, with many households spending more than half their disposable income on rent or mortgage payments. People are also being crammed by landlords into unsuitable empty industrial buildings with hardly any living space and poor facilities.Thursday, April 28, 2011
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