US Government Calls for Twitter Censorship

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/0...en-free-speech

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EFF has witnessed a growing number of calls in recent weeks for Twitter to ban certain accounts of alleged terrorists. In a December 14th article in the New York Times, anonymous U.S. officials claimed they “may have the legal authority to demand that Twitter close” a Twitter account associated with the militant Somali group Al-Shabaab. A week later, the Telegraph reported that Sen. Joe Lieberman contacted Twitter to remove two “propaganda” accounts allegedly run by the Taliban. More recently, an Israeli law firm threatened to sue Twitter if they did not remove accounts run by Hezbollah.

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How does Lieberman keep getting elected?

Cant have a twitter account cause too dangerous not responsible enough and terrorist? Wow that's retarded.

So what you say, has to be filtered by government depending on what type of terrorist you are.

how far could you push it till you have no mind of your own.

This is the internet a communication network, a form of expression. You can't legitimately censor intellectual public property. Anymore than you could censor someones opinion on something. But they sure will push it far as they can and keep pushing it. Because masses of people connecting together, is a problem as it creates an environment of illumination. So all the dellusions of the corporate world become in danger.

They most likely make these extremist accounts, just so they have an excuse to censor other normal people under the same policy laws. So the terorist are the ones using the excuse of terrorism which they are involved with to create laws which serve their business ideas.

Since they consider hackers to be terrorists now I assume they'd go on to censor accounts like Hacker News and Anonymous News. Then they'd censor anyone who lends support to these disenfranchised groups, then they'd censor anyone who questions their censorship procedure. I base this on the way Eastern Germany systematically censored its media.

I'm sure Twitter's response to the government is a big middle finger.

It was, hence why Israel is resorting to sue them.

well some are getting deperate as they know they have to somehow stop the communication of the internet it's already taken over television only they can't easily control what's on net and the way people go about connecting with each other, is much more dangerous to them, than anything else they have encountered before.

How do you control people that have access to information and can be in communication with each other 24/7. Way more difficult under a network in which everyone has equal expression and access to each other at the same time. Thats why you get a different reality on the net, than you do on television. The net is actually more realistic.

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

I'm sure Twitter's response to the government is a big middle finger.

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They should shut down Joe Lieberman's account as well. Douche.

Here's another related story

Judge rules that Twitter must hand over information on WikiLeaks supporters | The Raw Story

Glad I'm not an Twitter. I would probably be in that group. I support Wikileaks, and have done action in support.

You're on facebook though, right?

Also, I got interested in the background of the image in that article...
http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/
Should be amusing :lol:

Yeah, the only reason twitter is going through this ordeal is because they weren't submitting to illegal government searches and censorship the way facebook and google are.

LONG LIVE ANON PLUS