<story><title>Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]</title><url>http://members.efn.org/~paulmd/OwnWork/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>netik</author><text>All of you are misinterpreting Twitter&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;features&amp;quot; here.&lt;p&gt;Most likely the root cause of this is an internal feature at Twitter called &amp;quot;per-country takedown.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If someone from Germany asked (and had a valid court order) that the Tweet be taken down for German users, then Twitter has the ability to disable the Tweet for people coming from German IPs.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t agree with this, I lobbied heavily against it while I worked there to no avail, but it&amp;#x27;s a solid explanation  for why you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to see a Tweet in different regions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]</title><url>http://members.efn.org/~paulmd/OwnWork/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ogig</author><text>One of my main concerns with mainstream social networks is this kind of subtle censorship&amp;#x2F;filtering. Some people think their Facebook stream is an accurate representation of their friends and surrounding reality, they are ignorant of the algoritms that decide what they will see and what not.</text></comment>