I’m sure the fact that a powerful Saudi prince bought a significant stake in Twitter a few weeks ago has nothing to do with their announcement yesterday:
Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world
Coincidences are a funny thing..
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I beg to differ…
According to HH al-Walid bin Talal “It was a pure financial investment with economic objectives,” he said. “Politics has no ingredients whatsoever in that investment … the secure economic financial investment with expected huge returns to our company Kingdom Holding.”
I was actually worried more about tags such as this one..
Oh God… My HTML attempts failed miserably…
Source of the quote here: http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/25/saudi-prince-explains-300m-twitter-deal/
And the hashtag here: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23IsraelHates
It’s ok, I fixed it..
As for “HH” bin Talal: Well, if he said so, then he must be right, right?
thank god mark zuckerberg doesn’t need dirty saudi money
Mashable is saying that this is most likely due to members of US government asking twitter to remove Taliban:
http://mashable.com/2012/01/26/twitter-to-censor/
But it can’t be a coincidence that this happens one day after Twitter launches in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Urdu.
I think there are far too many conspiracy theories floating around about this decision. Twitter has always been available in Arabic. The latest change just makes it more user-friendly and will give users an Arabic interface. It’s not like we haven’t been able to tweet in Arabic before this.
There can never be too many conspiracy theories about sleazy internet companies getting into bed with sleazy politicians, Nancy. I guarantee whatever conspiracy theories people come up with, the truth is worse