Twitter has announced that it now has the capability to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, and naturally there’s been a global outcry about the threat to free speech.
I wrote a piece for Crikey today, explaining the positive spin the company was putting on it all, and pointing out that Twitter does still need to justify its valuation of $8.4 billion when its revenues are a mere $100 million.
But Crikey is suffering “technical issues” right now, and I can’t point to that article just yet.
Until then, here’s an interview I just did on ABC 702 Sydney and ABC Regional Radio around NSW with Dom Knight.
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The audio is ©2012 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. But these program items usually aren’t archived on their website so here it is.