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Twitter has both public and private messages. If anyone is taking about monitoring communications on it, I would assume they're talking about the private ones.
by abstractbill 15y ago
Twitter has both public and private messages. If anyone is taking about monitoring communications on it, I would assume they're talking about the private ones.
- ig1 15y agoWhy would you assume that ? - a large amount of the "incitement" that took place caused problems in a large part because it was public in a one-to-many form.
- mattdeboard 15y agoI'm sorry, did I miss the part where they said they would only monitor Twitter? Or am I remembering correctly where they used the broad, sweeping term "social networks", which would include Facebook, and I'm sure BBM chat. Do you live in a fantastical world where governments pass very strictly limited, narrowly defined laws that precisely target one specific problem? Because here on earth the rule is overbroad laws made by ignorant legislators.
- ig1 15y agoNo, but the OP specifically mentioned twitter. More generally I think we should wait until the government comes out with a formal proposal rather than getting all hung up on a soundbite.