Twitter has decided to disable the Politwoops account because it was going against their current standards, but some wonder if that is true. Politwoops was setup by The Sunlight Foundation to catch elected officials that try to delete damaging tweets. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Does Twitter have a point or are they violating free speech? Let us know in the comments below.
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“The executives who once called Twitter the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party” don’t work at Twitter anymore.
It shows.
In June, Twitter abruptly cut off access to Politwoops, a website operated by the Sunlight Foundation that preserved deleted tweets sent by elected officials in the United States. Then last weekend, Twitter dropped the hammer on Politwoops’ sister services, cutting off access to Diplotwoops and Politwoops in 30 countries around the globe.
In doing so, Twitter shut down dozens of popular services that enabled the public to see what diplomats, legislators, mayors, governors, presidents and other elected officials (or, in most cases, their staff) once had tweeted but then decided to delete, thus removing a layer of accountability for public speech.”
Comments
According to Anna’s logic, only the Kardashians have relevance? Nothing of any meaning has ever occurred on twitter, at least in this country. Abroad that’s different; Arab Spring, etc. Here it’s mostly morons (i.e. Kardashians again) giving an opinion or pushing some self-aggrandizing notion or product. The only thing twitter does for politicians is give them an opportunity to screw up. Of coarse, I pay no attention to twitter, so I too am irrelevant.
I will try to contain my disappointment.