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Twitter's New Transparency Report: Governments Still Want Your Data
Nerval's Lobster writes "All your Tweets are belong to us... with a court order. Twitter's second transparency report reinforces what many already know: governments want online user data, and to yank select content from the Internet. Twitter's first two transparency reports cover the entirety of 2012, so there's not a deep historical record to mine for insight. Nonetheless, that year's worth of data shows all types of government inquiry—information requests, removal requests, and copyright notices—either on the increase or holding relatively steady. Governments requested user information from Twitter some 1,009 times in the second half of 2012, up slightly from 849 requests in the first half of that year. Content-removal requests spiked from 6 in the first half of 2012 to 42 in the second. Meanwhile, copyright notices declined a bit, from 3378 in the first half of 2012 to 3268 in the second."
You know it's coming. Hit post then immediately a popup appears informing you of your eRrest warrant and eNdictment prompting you for your plea.
How can a tweet infringe copyright? I find it inconceivable that 140 characters could ever do that.
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"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
This is the internet so common sense or even real world examples do not apply. If the real world laws were written like laws regarding data/internet you would get 35 years for drug trafficking because you told a friend an address of a house that sells drugs.
Remember 'arab spring':
That's those people we're fighting in Mali now, isn't it?
Yep, that violates anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA not copyrights.
Youv'e never written poetry, I guess. You can cram a lot into 140 characters.
But there is no 140 character limit. There is a 140 character per tweet limit. Two tweets is 280 characters. Now we are really talking.