{"id":28134,"date":"2011-10-19T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28134"},"modified":"2011-12-05T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:43:25","slug":"uk-twitter-vows-to-protect-users-from-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28134","title":{"rendered":"UK: Twitter vows to protect users from government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO <a title=\"Twitter - Dick Costolo\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dickc\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Costolo<\/a> has <a title=\"Telegraph - Twitter chief: We will protect our users from Government\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/twitter\/8833526\/Twitter-chief-We-will-protect-our-users-from-Government.html\" target=\"_blank\">stressed the need<\/a> to keep freedom of speech as a priority, even in times of civil unrest. Speaking at the <a title=\"Web 2.0 Summit 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.web2summit.com\/web2011\" target=\"_blank\">Web 2.0 Summit<\/a> in San Francisco on Monday, Costolo stood by the decision not to suspend the service or reveal user identities to authorities in the wake of the UK riots this summer. <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Joint letter to Home Secretary on social media blackouts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/08\/joint-letter-to-home-secretary-on-social-media-blackouts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Talks between<\/a>\u00a0representatives from Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger and Home Secretary Theresa May during the riots caused speculation that\u00a0the government would try to temporarily suspend the digital networks.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has stressed the need to keep freedom of speech as a priority, even in times of civil unrest. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Monday, Costolo stood by the decision not to suspend the service or reveal user identities to authorities in the wake of the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4059,584,585],"tags":[3634,136,1721,700,3633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28134"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30739,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28134\/revisions\/30739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}