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  • Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting

    30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone in Culture, Politics, Social, Tech/Sci, Twitter, Very Cool, Vibe, World
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    Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.

    I mean apparently it was pretty popular! Except I don’t know how you measure the success of a social media blackout. I mean, #TwitterBlackout tweets came in at about 12 per minute, in English, Spanish, German and Arabic, among others, for most of the weekend – except they were still using Twitter to broadcast the Twitter blackout.

    Which means that online activists who were angry about Twitter deleting certain posts wanted people to respond by not posting posts. And people responded to that by posting posts telling people not to post posts. All of which I’m sure is very effective and is sure to alter Twitter’s stance on censorship radically.

    Obviously letting protest fatigue get to you is a bad thing – if The Man can just wait for us to get tired of being angry about whatever new policy is being foisted upon us, then we’re en route to a pretty unfortunate state of the web – but some of these are starting to seem a little short-lived, populist, and inane.

    Incidentally, there’s no sign of the #TwitterBlackout trending today.

    [Source: BoingBoing]

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