{"id":10374,"date":"2011-07-22T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2011-07-22T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T13:39:18","slug":"has-twitter-entered-the-political-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/has-twitter-entered-the-political-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Twitter entered the political sphere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has to be more to the story, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2011\/07\/20\/twitter-kills-the-most-important-state-level-conservative-group-in-the-country\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Erick Erickson<\/a> is quite concerned:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, Twitter not only shut down the Empower Texans twitter feed, but it also shut down the twitter feeds of <em>every individual who works for Empower Texans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is a private organization. It can do what it wants. But I am very troubled that it did so without explanation and without anyone for Empower Texans to contact.<\/p>\n<p>If this was an orchestrated effort on the part of others to flag Empower Texans as a spam account such that Twitter\u2019s computer system would automatically can it, Twitter has a serious security problem.<\/p>\n<p>It was a man made decision, Twitter has even bigger problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has to be more to the story, but Erick Erickson is quite concerned: Today, Twitter not only shut down the Empower Texans twitter feed, but it also shut down the twitter feeds of every individual who works for Empower Texans. Twitter is a private organization. It can do what it wants. But I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,15],"tags":[459,386,310],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-texas","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}