Rich Kulawiec: > Consider: if Twitter is so ready, willing and able to cave in to these > demands, what possible reason is there to think that they won't give in > just as quickly to *other* demands -- like for a data dump on all the > users in a particular country or following particular accounts or using > particular tags, including their login history with IP addresses, OS > fingerprint, and everything else that they have on them?
to be fair, because they've fought those very attempts in court when they had the option in the past. not that willing to do business in some states is suspect, but there are examples in others where not only did they go to court, but they warned the users as well. regardless, to stop using twitter won't be an answer for many. they will need to go wherever their peers/audience goes. i've been locked out a number of times myself. my only issue with twitter is how long it has taken them to unlock the account by sending me the confirmation e-mail. -- gpg key - 0x2A49578A7291BB34 fingerprint - 63C4 E106 AC6A 5F2F DDB2 3840 2A49 578A 7291 BB34 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
