Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will censor in various countries according to the laws in that country. They cited the example of German and French law banning Nazi content, but that’s a minority example. Most of this censoring will be the stifling of political dissent such as we saw last year during the Arab Spring.
My advice is not to trust the geeks with your privacy or your rights. They have shown repeatedly they don’t give a shit, they will not stand up for you, they are not a principled crowd and they just want to do business.
Of course they will take credit for any positive social change that occurs that they play a role in, but when the going gets tough they will throw you under the bus.
We live in days where people admire and love and respect the geeks, but I think that respect is sorely misplaced.
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