{"id":27669,"date":"2017-11-06T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27669"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:28:10","slug":"twitter-revises-terms-of-service-no-longer-believes-in-speaking-truth-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27669","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Revises Terms Of Service, No Longer Believes In “Speaking Truth To Power”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter Revises Terms Of Service, No Longer Believes In “Speaking Truth To Power”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Having been caught in a crossfire over internet free speech and Russian conspiracy theories, Twitter has quietly made a significant change in its stated “Twitter Rules” terms of service.<\/div>\n
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Following several Congressional hearings meant to root out “Russian interference” by Twitter accounts, as well as an incident in which a disgruntled, now former employee, disabled Donald Trump’s twitter account for 11 minutes, it appears that Twitter no longer believes in “speaking truth to power<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The change can be seen in Twitter’s TOS, in the \u201cAbusive Behavior\u201d section<\/a>, which currently states that \u201cWe believe in freedom of expression and open dialogue, but that means little as an underlying philosophy if voices are silenced because people are afraid to speak up<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is a material change from what this section stated as recently as November 2, when the section read <\/a>\u201cWe believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power”…
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… with believing in “speaking truth to power<\/strong>” replaced with “open dialogue.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

The change took place just two days after November 1, when Twitter, along with Google and Facebook, were questioned by Congress in the ongoing witch-hunt, as dubbed by Donald Trump, for \u201cRussian influence\u201d that may have led to interference in the 2016 presidential election. As @Jack twitted at the time, the changes to Twitter\u2019s rules were made as part of a November 3 attempt to \u201cclarify\u201d them.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter Revises Terms Of Service, No Longer Believes In “Speaking Truth To Power” Having been caught in a crossfire over internet free speech and Russian conspiracy theories, Twitter has quietly made a significant change in its stated “Twitter Rules” terms of service. Following several Congressional hearings meant to root out “Russian interference” by Twitter accounts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16886,16885,10372,819,1796],"class_list":["post-27669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-open-dialogue","tag-speaking-truth-to-power","tag-terms-of-service","tag-twitter","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27670,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions\/27670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}