Facebook and Twitter not removing WikiLeaks, yet

Source: Digital Trends Via Yahoo News

Jeffrey Van Camp – 2 hrs 50 mins ago

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With so many companies buckling to Gov’t pressure, Forbes asked Facebook if it was planning to disable WikiLeaks’ Facebook account. Spokesperson Andrew Noyes said no.

“We haven’t received any official requests to disable the Wikileaks page, or any notification that the articles posted on the page contain unlawful content,” said Noyes. “If we did, of course, we would review the material according to our rules and standards, and take it down if appropriate. The mere existence of a Wikileaks fan page on Facebook doesn’t violate any law and we would not take it down just like we don’t take down other pages about controversial topics. We’re continuing to monitor the situation.”

Yesterday, Twitter was also pressured after reporters wondered by #wikileaks and #cablegate trending topics had seemingly disappeared from the site’s main page. Spokesperson Matt Graves also claims that Twitter is not disabling or censoring anything. “Twitter is not censoring #wikileaks, #cablegate or other related terms from the Trends list of trending topics,” said Graves. “There’s a number of factors that may come into play when seemingly popular terms don’t make the Trends list. Sometimes topics that are popular don’t break into the Trends list because the current velocity of conversation (volume of Tweets at a given moment) isn’t greater than in previous hours and days. Sometimes topics that are genuinely popular simply aren’t widespread enough to make the list of top Trends. And, on occasion, topics just aren’t as popular as people believe.”

So, despite the corporate world completely caving in to Gov’t pressure, WikiLeaks still has social networks on its side…at least for now.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20101208/tc_digitaltrends/facebookandtwitternotremovingwikileaksyet

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by delaying scheduled maintenance when the State Department asked them to?

What else are they doing for the State Department? :shrug:

getting out... then don't commit these crimes.

we want to get out but I am somewhat afraid of the future. There are more of us than them but I suspect it is just a small group of true geniuses who are holding this protest together. I am worried about what kind of laws we are going to get if and when this ends. Fascism only gets worse unless it is totally crushed and I do not see us being able to do that.