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Twitter boss slams Wikipedia's 'silly' SOPA protest
- jarin 15y agoGood old "Dickbar" Costolo
- im_dario 15y agoMaybe a nice way to "blackout" Twitter is don't tweeting or just censoring our tweets. I just started to spread this tweet (with #twuserblackout as main hashtag): Don't force Twitter to close tomorrow. Just don't tweet or ██████ yourself #twuserblackout #SOPA #PIPA #ACTA
- pasbesoin 15y agoJust today, Twitter sent me an email saying "we missed you". Can't say the same, Dick. Actually, if this is the tweet, https://twitter.com/dickc/statuses/159014296616058880?_escaped_fragment_=/dickc/status/159014296616058880#!/dickc/status/159014296616058880 https://twitter.com/dickc/statuses/159014296616058880?_escap... I can see the point about a global business -- having contract obligations and cash flow issues, etc. But that does not have a direct bearing on Wikipedia. Further, Dick's tweet has been repeatedly cited in newstories looking for a dramatic, opposing sound bite with which apparently to counter "them commies". Is this Dick's failure, or the failure of "his" platform in its reduction of all commentary to single brief sentences or phrases? (Yes, I'm being deliberately a bit snarky. After all, that is one of Twitter's provinces.) Twitter's gained enormous credibility as a stubbornly open channel in the face of repressive regimes e.g. those involved in the Arab Spring. What a shame if its CEO sees fit to lie down and sleep with domestic (after all, you're still basically a U.S. company -- or U.S. based) repression. I hope this is about keeping Twitter up, but not about supporting SOPA/PIPA/et al. And I hope that if so, Costolo will step up and state so clearly. Use more than one sentence if you need to.