[governance] Twitter to add to Balkanization of the Web

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear all,
Twitter just announced that they will soon roll out country-level
masking of content.

http://goo.gl/icmIu

This seems to be yet another pointer to the increasing balkanization of
the Web.

So, different users see individualized search results based on personal
data, they see different maps depending on which country they are in,
they may or may not view a video depending on which country they are in,
and now they will see different tweets depending on their country.

In a recent symposium on social media and freedom of expression, Michael
Anti, the Chinese journalist and blogger, noted how increasingly one
needs a visa (think circumvention tools) to access the 'international'
Internet.   However, we're heading to a future where there is no one
'international' Internet.  Unless of course, we're already living in
that future.

Regards,
Pranesh

-- 
Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283

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