1月28日、ツイッターが特定の国で投稿を非公開にするシステムを導入したと発表したのを受け、検閲を可能にするとして反発の声が上がっている。しかし実際は、当該国が表現の自由を制限していることを、その国のオンラインユーザーに知らせるシグナルにもなる。写真はツイッターのコストロCEO。昨年2月撮影(2012年 ロイター) 短文投稿サイトの米ツイッターは26日、当局から投稿の削除要請があった場合、その国や地域でのみ非公開にするシステムの導入を発表。今回の発表を受け、インターネット上では、検閲を可能にするとして反発の声が上がっており、コメンテーターや活動家をはじめネット利用者は、「とても悪い知らせだ」などと怒りのコメントを寄せている。 その例として、米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズによると、ビアンカ・ジャガーさんは、ツイッターのボイコットを呼び掛ける方法をツイッター上で質問。その後、反対派は28日を「ツイッ
Since the 19th century, the common conception of “the author” has gone something like this: A young man, in his garret, writes furiously, crumpling up papers and throwing them on the floor, losing track of time, heedless of the public, obsessed with his own imagination. He is aloof, elusive, a man whom you know only by his writing and the portrait in his book. Writers themselves have sustained thi
It's been extremely entertaining to watch cyber-utopians – adherents of the view that digital tools of social networking such as Facebook and Twitter can summon up social revolutions out of the ether – trip over one another in an effort to put another nail in the coffin of cyber-realism, the position I've recently advanced in my book The Net Delusion. In my book, I argue that these digital tools a
My friends and I spent much of the past month channelling Cairo via New York. Our Facebook and Twitter feeds kept breathless pace with the events in Tahrir Square. There were plenty of fears and reservations (which remain), but our dominant emotion was awe that such change was indeed possible – and that social media could play a significant part in it. Now that the euphoria has waned, hard politic
Warmest congratulations to the Egyptian people, whose truly grassroots revolution has reminded the world what political action is supposed to look like. Although the work is far from done, and reconstituting a government by the people and for the people is perhaps the more difficult phase, it is right that they, and the world, should take a moment to reflect on a job well done. Some are using that
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The internet alone won't set anyone free. Between north Africa and Belarus, we are learning just what it can and can't do 'The Kleenex Revolution"? Somehow I think not. Unless, that is, you follow Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi. In a televised denunciation of the popular uprising that has deposed his friendly neighbouring dictator, he ranted: "Even you, my Tunisian brothers, you may be reading t
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