{"id":21437,"date":"2013-08-01T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21437"},"modified":"2013-08-01T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:34:02","slug":"that-kind-of-grassroots-power-tends-to-make-government-officials-jittery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/that-kind-of-grassroots-power-tends-to-make-government-officials-jittery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That kind of grassroots power tends to make government officials jittery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/governments-get-snoopier-and-bossier-wit\" target=\"_blank\">J.D. Tuccille<\/a> looks at the rise of <em>Twitter<\/em> &#8230; not so much its rise in users, but the rise in government interest and interference:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Twitter-information-requests-2012-13.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter information requests 2012-13\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Twitter-information-requests-2012-13.jpg 300w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Twitter-information-requests-2012-13-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You know you&#8217;ve arrived as an online media operation when governments take an interest in who is speaking out, and make efforts to muzzle what&#8217;s published. That&#8217;s definitely the case with Twitter, the microblogging platform that started as an outlet for exhibitionist ADHD sufferers, only to become a powerful medium for sharing news and grassroots organizing. According to the company&#8217;s latest transparency report, governments around the world are issuing ever-more demands for information about the service&#8217;s users, and stepping up efforts to suppress tweeted content.<\/p>\n<p>From January 1 through June 30 of this year, Twitter received 1,157 government requests for private information about users and accounts, up from 849 during the same period in 2012. Of those, authorities in the United States were responsible for 902 requests. Twitter complied in whole or part with 55 percent of all requests \u2014 67 percent of those originating in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, roughly 20 percent of information requests issued by American authorities were &#8220;under seal,&#8221; meaning that Twitter was forbidden to fulfill its usual policy of informing users about requests for their private information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Tuccille looks at the rise of Twitter &#8230; not so much its rise in users, but the rise in government interest and interference: You know you&#8217;ve arrived as an online media operation when governments take an interest in who is speaking out, and make efforts to muzzle what&#8217;s published. 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