Talk:Censorship of Twitter

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no discussion of censorship by twitter???
or would that be appropriate on the main twitter page? IE: their censorship of hashtags — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.57.80.144 (talk) 02:48, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm new at editing wikipedia. It appears Twitter is practicing censorship of the Occupy Wall Street movement, according to this article: http://rt.com/news/twitter-ows-protest-censorship-653/ I'd like to add this information to this section. I'm busy and new, but I'll try. If I don't come back and do it, I hope someone will do it in my stead.Onecallednick (talk) 01:14, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I just noticed similar stories have been removed, because they are censorship BY twitter, not OF twitter. Well, that's fine, but shouldn't we have a section that deals with that? The main twitter page doesn't seem to have a relevant section. Should we start one there, or create a separate article?Onecallednick (talk) 21:38, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It should exist. Not allowing such content here is censorship as well. 80.112.180.116 (talk) 18:01, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Twitter able to censor tweets in individual countries
It appears that censor will also happen on a per-country basis: [article]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.128.192 (talk) 05:53, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Censorship in Egypt
T think it's so hard to mention the fact that, according to several sources, access to Twitter (and Facebook) was reestablished on February 2011, after the infamous Internet shutdown in that country. Elandy2009 (talk) 17:58, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅ I expanded the section and added something about the end of Twitter censorship in Egypt. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 02:11, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Censorship in Venezuela
Some news say that there is censorship in Venezuela, but it's true? http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/14/twitter-claims-venezuela-is-blocking-its-images/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.152.93.174 (talk) 04:34, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Censorship in Turkey
Censorship of Twitter in Turkey caused by various court cases opened by Turkish citizens against Twitter ,based on insulting tweets tweeted by fake accounts so Objectiveness of this text is not fitting with wikipedia rules.


 * ✅. I made changes so that the text better follows the information from the cited source. Hopefully this addresses the problem mentioned above. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 17:33, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Censorship in USA
aclu website. 87.78.122.65 (talk) 16:22, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

There should be an entry here about Rose McGowan's account being shut down, following her comments concerning the Harvey Weinstein case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41594165/rose-mcgowan-one-of-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-has-account-limited-by-twitter

Worldwide censorship applied to all users.
You're telling me that there's only these topical cases of censorship on Twitter? Not the fact that they now infringe upon users rights based upon their words, even delving into thought crime? You needn't even go further than to look at the 'Trust and Safety Council' for a great example which consists of totalitarian groups of one political ideology--that which reflects user @jack's timeline verbatim--as an example of nepotism, corruption, and totalitarianism. This is a woefully inept article if the worldwide censorship issues aren't addressed first and foremost as they address all Twitter users. &lt;!//– ☠ ʇdɯ0ɹd ɥsɐq ☠ // user // talk // twitter //–> 01:20, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Germany
Censorship by former STASI members is also applied to the German Twitter - no free speech anymore. RIMOLA (talk) 20:44, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

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Critique of article for Mass Com course
The article lacks substance and details. It gives examples of countries where there is censorship of Twitter, however, it does not fully explain it. It leaves the reader with many questions. For instance, when talking about censorship in Israel and India, it barely has two to three sentences, scratching the surface of the issue. To be a complete article it needs to cover all the bases and the writer should formulate questions on their own and answer them within the text so the reader is fully informed and satisfied. In the other hand, the links actually work and it some of the references are recognized newspapers or news chains as well as a few governmental organizations. Izzycast (talk) 03:37, 18 September 2017 (UTC)


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Critique for Mass Comm course
Under the China section "some" is used ads it isn't clear CaseyRiley (talk) 01:38, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi CaseyRiley : This is a good start. As you continue to work more on this article, you should also consider whether the China section, and other sections of the article are presented in a neutral manner. Is there any bias?  Is there anything in the article that does not make sense to you and is not relevant to the topic?  Please use the Wikipedia Editing Brochure, handed out in class, and the Citing Your Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism handouts linked from Modules in our Canvas course, as your go-to guides throughout the semester.  Anytime you need help with your article or have any questions, you can click on the Help tab from our Wikipedia course to view topics in the help forum and also contact our the Wikipedia expert assigned to our course Shalor.  Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help! Prof.bgreg (talk) 16:01, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Censorship map
I am willing to put up a map of where Twitter is available and/or blocked, similar to what Censorship of YouTube has. I created the map using MapChart would any of you agree on having a map on the page? CoolGamer23 (talk) 11:39, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Nigeria
The activities of notable individuals during this whole blockage have to be documented for the sake of posterity. Removing content like this means Wikipedia is against free internet. The continuous editing of the content I included is pure pro-government bias Jwazza (talk) 20:53, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Censorship of and on Twitter
Should Censorship on Twitter be a separate article or should the article be moved to Censorship of and on Twitter? "Censorship of Twitter" seems inaccurate as in there only being censorship of the site or parts of it externally, while this article has long covered Censorship by/on Twitter as well. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:17, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Prototyperspective Yes, those topics should be split. I added a template proposal to split Censorship on X/Censorship on Twitter/Censorship by X/Censorship by Twitter into a stand-alone article from here. We have separate articles on Censorship by Facebook and Censorship of Facebook. Different topics. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  08:57, 18 March 2024 (UTC)