Cenk Uygur
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Twitter Shuts Down Politiwoops And Diplotwoops
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August 26, 2015
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6:54Now PlayingTwitter has decided to disable the Politwoops account because it was going against their current standards, but some wonder if that is true. Politwoops was setup by The Sunlight Foundation to catch elected officials that try to delete damaging tweets. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“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 Diplotwoops and Politwoops in 30 countries around the globe.
In doing so, Twitter shut down dozens of popular services that enabled the public to see what diplomats, legislators, mayors, governors, presidents and other elected officials (or, in most cases, their staff) once had tweeted but then decided to delete, thus removing a layer of accountability for public speech.”
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