Twitter Declares, "The Tweets Must Flow"

[Joanne98]

Source: Twitter

While protests rage on in Egypt, Twitter called for free expression and transparency in a manifesto published on its blog.

Co-written by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and the company's General Council and former Google lawyer Alexander Macgillivray, the post casts Twitter as a trustworthy messenger, relaying information between hundreds of millions of users, and only refusing to do so if such messages are illegal or spam.

With more than 100 million separate messages transmitted each day, the company says it would be impossible to monitor each and every one. In addition, Twitter vows to refrain from revealing private information about its users, and when it is required to do so by law, it will attempt to notify those users before handing over their information to the authorities.

As longtime dictators and despots blame Twitter as an instigator of their dwindling power, Twitter reminds us that it's only a mirror on such troubled societies, "providing the tools that foster these discussions." However, that mirror is turned into an enormous global amplifier in situations such as those in Egypt now and Tunisia earlier this month.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110130/tc_mashable/twitter_declares_the_tweets_must_flow

[Arctic Dave]

1. To be fair, Google's slogan was, "don't be evil",

and look what corporates fascist they turned out to be.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Is Hil going to offer DoS servers to Twitter, like they did for Iranian Tweets?

Let's help the Muslim Brotherhood (of which Ayman Zawahiri is a prime figure). :party:

:sarcasm:

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http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=12879

Mohammed Mahdi Akef, the supreme guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) tried to swallow his words in which he praised the leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, whom he considered to be a faithful mujahid (resistance fighter).

[Laelth]

3. k&r for the truth and for all those who freely share it. n/t

-Laelth