EFF Disappointed in Twitter's Decision It no Longer Will Allow Groups To Track Deleted Tweets
Twitter’s decision to no longer allow accountability projects to track deleted tweets (see 1506040057) from politicians and public officials is a “disappointing move,” wrote Electronic Frontier Foundation Director-Copyright Activism Parker Higgins in a blog post Wednesday. “Politicians will frequently use…
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the platform to take a stance or react to an issue, and in many cases news reporters -- who might have previously called for comment, or quoted from a press statement -- will embed the tweet directly,” Higgins said. “Twitter has gone to great lengths to defend free speech in the past.” While no one is arguing that Twitter is legally obligated to make deleted tweets available, the company’s recent compliance with “bogus” Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices (see 1508250054) is disappointing, he said. The new restrictions will be felt more by transparency groups than advertisers and individuals monitoring deleted tweets, because the organizations are “blocked by policy from ‘surfacing’ them,” Higgins said.