Cutting Off Politwoops, Twitter Follows The Needs Of Politicians, Not Public Interest
The executives who once called Twitter the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party” don’t work at Twitter anymore. It shows. In June, Twitter abruptly cut off access to Politwoops, a website operated by the Sunlight Foundation that preserved deleted tweets sent by elected officials in the United States. Then last weekend, Twitter dropped the hammer on Politwoops' sister services, cutting off access to
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