Comments on: First Ever ‘Withheld’ Tweet Was Faked By F-Secure Researcher

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 04:45:00 +0000

Basically what they’re doing now is removing our right to free speech

By: duodeqibaaa

duodeqibaaa — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:58:00 +0000

http://al.ly/4ip

By: Tweeter

Tweeter — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:52:00 +0000

If 140 characters or less doesn’t count as fair use or de minimis use, wtf does?

By: Hardcore_Gamer1

Hardcore_Gamer1 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:17:00 +0000

@Krozareq
You just argued against yourself and I will explain to you why. You said that no corporation should be forced into what they can and can’t takedown. Well, what if they aren’t deciding to censor on their own terms and it is actually outside legal threats and powerful lobbyist groups who are influencing social media policies. Corporations are gaining government-like power and dominating independent businesses. Wikileaks had all their funds and advertising cut off by every major bank, every major credit card company, as well as PayPal. Kim Dotcom had a botched investigation against him that resulted in even the non-infringing users losing their files. When Google defended itself in court to protect YouTube against Viacom, they lost, which resulted in stricter video filtering where a lot of content is removed by lawyers from outside of Google. It’s not too hard to get companies to give in when the MPAA and RIAA have ex-employees working in congress, huge lobby groups and only a few banks control USA’s wealth. Globalization is significantly decreasing alternative options as companies merge, struggle to compete or are buried by legal hurdles. That ‘part’ of the internet that you are referring to is expanding rapidly. Once any service begins to have a reach they are targeted. Statistics on ChillingEffects show it is not just the big names that are targeted. Even no-name political bloggers are being sued at an alarming rate. In many cases there are now even DMCA takedowns without due process where websites aren’t just sued or delisted, but completely removed from the internet. This happens before the accused can even counter the claims. There was a recent case where a group made a video revealing that Whole Foods misleads customers about not selling GMO products. Within hours the video was erased from all major video sites, delisted from many search engines and its creators threatened.. As for tweets, how many people are going to pay thousands of dollars in legal fee’s with today’s rough economy to get their tweets reinstated. Even ISP’s are targeting its own customers, as next month they will implement a “3 Strike” rule where they spy on their own users and report their activities to an ‘independent’ copyright committee. The only problem is that this ‘independent’ committee are actually former RIAA lobbyists. With future ACTA and TPP bills on the way it is clear that many big corporations are abusing the system solely for their own gain. Using their money and power to scare and sue competitors and dissenters into submission, making false claims, cutting off funds/advertising and influencing lawmakers. Why should I have to use a social network that none of my friends are on only for it to go out of business, conform or become so popular that it too is targeted by the new internet police. What search engine isn’t powered by Google, Bing or Yahoo nowadays? Website owners and users are already being told what to do. The tyranny has already arrived and we mustn’t let it’s disease continue to spread. As for our own internet for computer nerds, we have the deepnet. The only problem is that it is slow, has primitive looking websites and has far less content. That being said, it is anonymous and free of censorship.

By: 3 Count: Triumphant Return | Plagiarism Today

3 Count: Triumphant Return | Plagiarism Today — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:13:55 +0000

[...] First off today, Zack Whittaker at CNet reports that Twitter has announced an update to its copyright policy that will identify tweets that have been removed due to copyright notices. The new system will not simply delete removed tweets but will replace it with a notice that the tweet was removed due to a copyright notice. Though the decision has been lauded by those seeking greater transparency in Twitter’s copyright system, the first “removed” tweet, including the one used in the linked article, was actually a faked by the user as a joke. This has been confirmed by Torrentfreak. [...]

By: Lethn

Lethn — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:31:00 +0000

Thanks Torrentfreak for actually using journalism skills to look at this and not just do what any other journalist would do and immediately assume twitter are out censoring what people say? Yes, it will eventually happen and people have been arrested for making comments on facebook/twitter before but if we don’t use actual facts to further this cause then we’re no better than the people we fight against.

EDIT: WOOOO EDIT BUTTON!

By: bow chicka wow wow

bow chicka wow wow — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:44:00 +0000

twotter owns all tweets so it’s twotter in violation of copysloppy.

By: gnugitsu

gnugitsu — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Rob8urcakes hey man, how are you doing? I read a while back you were dealing with some issues so I just wanted to ask.

By: Krozareq

Krozareq — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:39:00 +0000

Then don’t use those parts of the Internet. That’s why I have been suggesting our own net of hobbyists and real computer users just like it used to be before every jackass on their iDevice came along.

But telling a site owner what content they can or cannot delete is in itself tyranny and censorship is it not?

Do you have a blog, a message board, IRC channel, etc? Imagine the Government telling you that you have to keep some jackasses around.

By: SimVooo

SimVooo — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:50:00 +0000

Bummer, Tweet is becoming way too commercialized for my liking!
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