A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.
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Not cool.
very worrying.
Troubling in light of social media’s role in social/political uprisings in certain nations.
Hm, it doesn’t seem like too complicated of an infrastructure that an ambitious young person wouldn’t be able to make a functional censorship-free alternative.
-Joe
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Great Samsung Tab Commercial
In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)
I present to you… MegaBox. MegaBox…
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Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.
WOW.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean, we’ll see how they actually end up voting and all if/when it hits the floor, but still. This is just… neat.
Power to the Internet People!
-Joe
Shortly after a federal raid today brought down the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group and the RIAA.
“It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the…
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