i made a video of it

http://www.screencast.com/t/Mzc4MGVjMTUt

well .. some tweeps here thought that there’s some kind of conspiracy among twitter and Israeli ..

I think that this is a better explanation for it ..

right or wrong, i have added twitter to the list of services i don’t trust ..

then why searches on #fiotilla and #gaza are blocked ?!!

Your explanation and reasoning itself seems flawed.

Not appearing as a trending topic since the hashtag is being flagged as “old news” seems like a flawed conclusion.

Isn’t the logic twitter uses based on real-time results taking into consideration the time the hashtag is created & the # of users using that # tag?

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23flotilla
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23gaza

(all of them give errors)

Your hypothysis only accounts for why the term is not trending, it does not account for the fact that we are unable to search for the word “flotilla”.

The mystery of the disappearing #flotilla on Twitter…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

If its all about being a user for Flotilla, what about israil, israel or istanbul?

Also while Twitter works for spam really good, how they thought only flotilla is a spam?

http://dowzocalypse.com/2010/05/31/flotilla-aid-murder-twitter-censorship/

A whole coverage of this issue available here:
http://www.techania.com/twitter-censorship-freedom-flotilla/

Such BS! Gaza as old news? and that is OK?

John Dean is more eloquent am too furious.

Somebody put flotilla as a stop word in the crawlers. This is a decision that cannot be made by mistake.

Twitter f’ed up big time. Lost credibility.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23flotilla won’t load a search result page
same for https://twitter.com/search?q=%23israel

so, even if the trending topic algorithm didn’t do its job, why the hell is search ignoring those hashtags ?

come on. There’s dirty political funds backing Twitter.
That’s the sensible explanation.

Looks ok from me (in Berlin right now)

since when TC became the PR company for Twitter, only reason I can see that is, Arrignton is a Jew who is trying to cover up this hypocrisy for the sake of Jewish brotherhood. correct me from Wrong Twitter found Ev is another Jew ? I am not being racial in any way I am just exposing the hypocrisy of Twitter. We don’t see this ‘mistake’ in the case of #iranelection hasghtag ?

http://trendistic.com/ the banned hashtags show up. Use third party apps to search for #flotilla it shows up.
You said the trending topic #israil shows up on twitter.com but when you search it on the site it shows an error page.

Twitter has censored trending topics in the past. They removed #luciferiscoming and a few other tags associated with the TV series Supernatural ( just fans celebrating the season premier) after Sean P ‘Diddy Dumb’ Combs thought satanists had taken over twitter and called his 2M+ followers to start tweeting with #godishere. An virtual war broke out and Twitter has since then blocked anything related to Supernatural.
Sources: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2160263/luciferiscoming_the_twitterverse_has.html?cat=39

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/supernatural/is-twitter-silencing-supernatu-31275.aspx

I blame Justin Bieber, Twitter users like him forced an algorithm change to stop the insane number of tweets from his followers.

Both topics return search results here in Australia.
Are they still not working for everyone else?

even searching the visible trend topic on twitter #israil shows up error page.
Search using Tweetie or TweetDeck it shows up. http://trendistic.com/gaza This shows the trending topics

Dont know if it was censored for a while or not but just did a search and #freedomflotilla, Gaza flotilla and İsrail are all trending topics on twitter right now

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=freedom+flotilla

Could it be that the censorship is/was being applied based on location?

I think there really is a simple explanation for #flotilla disappearing. The last three days have witnessed the re-enactment of the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France in 1940 by a #flotilla of little ships.
The re-enactment ended yesterday afternoon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8707657.stm

“Imran” the balanced non-racist:
“He’s a Jew”, “He’s a Jew”, “That one acts for the sake of Jewish brotherhood”, “I am not being racial in any way”.

Lol!

Someone needs to read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Thanks for offering this theory as a possible explanation. However, I fail to believe that an advanced, high-tech team like Twitter simply forgot to take into consideration the old-news-not-related-to-current-events factor in their trending topics. It also seems to be too much of a coincidence that both #gaza and #flotilla went MIA from Twitter’s trending topics on the same day. I’m not a fan of conspiracies, I prefer logic, but maybe a more elaborate response on this might help.

This search should work if you are logged in:

http://search.twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=flotilla&result_type=recent

but some how this wont work:
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23flotilla

leod87 – a calmer head. Thank you for actually looking for a likely cause not linked to a racist stereotype. That BBC story uses the word flotilla 3 times and clearly that has been a story over the last few days.

or simply trying this:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flotilla

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/jack-dorsey-fred-wilson-twitter-book-excerpt/

For those here who should start from fact on the men behind Twitter, encourage you research before making unfounded statements.

Search for Flotilla & Israel are not appearing from Indonesia using Twitter search, 3rd party apps work.

I have been a Twitter fan since beta for and I do sense a filter has been intentionally applied, reasons we can all guess at but should wait for Twitter to share their position. Twitters response will guide my decision to either continue to use their service or no longer use their service.

Twitter is not the 1st company to self censorship, just turn on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. how many of these networks are covering this story impartially?

On location based censorship (can I claim dibs on the acronym LBC =) )

Tweeting #flotilla was very heavy since GMT+4 and only recently activists switched to #freedflotilla and for many hours only Twitter was not showing flotilla while other tools like trendistic had a different story to tell.

Search engines have a capability to block words and its usually used to stop indexing of words like prepositions, definite an indefinite articles, and I think somebody added #flotilla.

If I were Twitter and if Twitter were to care, the log to that function is what should be inspected first.

My apology for that, However isn’t the freedom of speech mask just splits apart today on Twitter. Every troll in the world, Every spammer in the world, used the #iranelection tag but still they didn’t censor it and all of their antilogarithm failed to detect it and today one is telling me it’s just a ‘mere’ mistake.

I’ve mentioned ‘anomalies’ re: certain religious and/or politically trends on twitter before.

A month or two ago, I noticed the phrase “I love jesus” was trending. Clicking on that phrase showed the following query being used for this trend: (“I love” OR “I love jesus”)

I proceeded to search on both phrases and found that in most of the occurances of this “trend” the word ‘jesus’ was nowhere to be found.

draw your own conclusion, I’ve drawn mine.

Faillllllllllll :S

I have been receiving about 100 tweets per min with the hash tag #Flotilla.

Twitter had wind of this event at 1am BST, BBC world reported a Israeli statement that 3 Israeli warships where following the flotilla and that they would use “minimal force” to prevent them docking in Gaza.

It should not have been a surprise that people would be tweeting about it in numbers.

To be fair to Twitter, the number transactions and hits on their infrastructure for each Tweet and search has to be substantial by any stretch of the imagination. They have problems most Fridays with the #FF tradition.

Anyway, I don’t see any censorship.

It’s working well in South Korea too.

you should be totally naive not to see any censorship or problem with the hashtag #flotilla..

it was trending with more than 2000 tweets per min just a few hours ago before people switching to different hashtags etc.

#flotilla search is working fine in Israel

How come #israil the turkish word is trending and #israel is not? #israel comes up a freaking lot more than #israil on search results.

Searching for ‘#flotilla’ and ‘flotilla’ worked all morning fine from the UK.

Does Indonesia (one of the locations mentioned above) have a history of blocking some websites?

Piss poor Twitter, you’re only as good as the content we give you… you even make money from it… Then you censor us?

It is a hot topic now in the Arabian community!
http://wa9.la/ser

search is just one thing..some people had problems for some it was OK but the main issue was hashtag #flotilla not trending globally..

Before forging a wrong evaluation of what happened you should watch this video of efforts made to stop PEACEFULLY the boat to approach Gaza coasts.

Censoring is because a Turkish Islamist grabbed the rifle from a IDF soldier, sprayed around the boat killing 10 of his fellow activists. Now the mainstream media controlled by the Saudis will blames this on “evil Jewish state”. The lull is because they are getting their lies straight before the blast us with the “truth”.

Saudis also own 5% of CNN and 7% of Fox.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/10/right-rebels-foxnews/

Well I have limit of 100msgs per colum in Tweet deck, I’m sure the Tweet rate is higher.

Blanket censorship on the Internet/Twitter is not the preferred method of the Israeli Govt and their allies, it is mis-information and confusion.

The Israeli Govt wheel out their spokeman and propagandists to flood every form of media with their POV. It is self defeating to try blanket censorship and they are old hands at this game.

Israel, largely control the Internet. Akamai Technologies (one the larget CDN’s) was formed by an ex-head of Mossad.

They know that most people don’t care, and that others will be worn down by a lack of empowerment. People will consider that there is nothing they can do and a new news event will come along and all will be forgotten.

They just exploit peoples apathy, and feelings of futility. Much more effective and easier to manage.

Sure, and I am the man in the moon.

the ship wasn’t in Isreali waters thus what does that count for and it was produced by Israeli MFA that is total crap!

And lets talk about the warnings with gun fires first in this raw video, what do you think?

Censorship by many countries happen, including Indonesia.

What I have experienced and contacted twitter about is more specific to their site and lack of function.

Using 3 popular search engines from Indonesia, Google, Yahoo, Bing all return Israel or Flotilla, logic would dictate that filters at a country level would apply this across the network and not just one site.

I’m dumbfounded, but will wait until Twitter responds with their explanation for the “error.”

UPDATE: A couple of hours after this was posted it became clear Twitter users had switched to different terms, namely “Gaza flotilla” and #freedomflotilla which are working and trending just fine, so there is clearly no “censorship” going on. As we say, it may well have been down to technical problems with original hashtags people were using.

I don’t understand Arabic.
Assuming Israeli did open fire first how do you explain the shots fired back?
But how can a pacifist humanitarian movement carry guns and kalishnikov inside their boat?

LOL at your imagination kid..do you ever read official sources? what rifle are you talking about and an islamist spraying fire? there is press from all over the world in that ship, do you think they all protect that so claimed islamist who opened fired on those people?? please bug off!

http://idfspokesperson.com/2010/05/31/pistols-found-on-flotilla-activists-31-may-2010/

Thanks for the update Mike.
Enough with those flaky conspiracy theories.

And Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs do not need to wheel out their spokesmen, since the leftist, anti-Israeli Western media, cultural icons and activists ARE their spokesmen.

there is english coverage if you watch the whole video it is not just arabic!

and what guns and Aks are you talking about? only guns were the ones (two pistols) grabbed from Israeli soldiers according to IDF itself!!

But how come one of the best trained special forces in the world hand their guns off to a bunch of activists? Do you seriously buy that??

http://idfspokesperson.com/2010/05/31/pistols-found-on-flotilla-activists-31-may-2010/

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Well this couldn’t be any worse than the exploit we had on twitter, wherein people can google out private-tweets, could it?

Thanks for the update.

Though it does not answer similar concerns like, why #Israil (Israel in Turkish) trending but #Israel not etc. even though it is tweeted much more frequently since a while.

A filter on specific words concerning global politics?

Usually I’m preety peacful guy,
But lets face it, these ships were funded by an oreganisation that supports terror under cover of humanitary activity (it is proven).
If you looked at the full videos, you should see that the troops are asking the ships to return before taking any action, and suggeting to transfer the aid after inspection. Even egypt suggested to help to get the aid to gaza but the ships refused.

They wanted this fight. They didn’t expect to have casualties, but they wanted it.

Well JB, it seems I am unable to reply directly to your comment.

The point of this debate is to explore the possibility that Twitter censored #Flotilla. Your comment seems inapproriate but I shall answer you.

People throughout the world, including Israel, see the actions of the Israeli Govt. as being wholly unjustified and rightly they are outraged.

I do not intend to engage with you re: all the details here, but in Britain we have had a form of censorship regarding the plight of the Palestinian people for over a decade. They either undreport events or ignore them completely. So I don’t experience any western media support for Palestinians here.

Your comment does not address the subject of censorship and I get the impression that you are a propagandist who wants to deflect any criticism of Israel. Please take this somewhere else.

Mate I am not racist or something either..but I have not seen any proof but speculation about this group? Can you please provide a 3rd party source about this that is not related to Israel or Hamas itself?

And you have to face the fact that the ship included many people from different nationalities who left their daily jobs to do something for people in Gazza!

Most importantly about the warnings for inspection, the ship was in international waters keep that in mind please, so it is against any international law to break into it while it is not in Israeli waters. It is in simplest form “Piracy” if not cruel military intervention by Israeli forces. You can not simply speculate and think it has weapons in it and break into a ship and kill people randomly in international waters, simple as that!
I am sure the ship could have been blocked in front of the Gazza dock if Israel really wanted a peaceful precaution that is what pisses me off most!

It will be almost 12 hours since the initial incident and there is still no info about the number and IDs of casualties? Even though all ships have been cleared in Israeli docks.

Please check this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/may/31/israel-troops-gaza-ships

What do you mean by “international controvery”?

Twitter should have fixed whatever technical issue there is that was causing problems for one of the most trending topics, but instead they do nothing, and who knows may be they want it to be this way. turkish word ‘israil’ is trending but ‘israel’ is not while ‘israel’ is used more globally. yeah, corporations with founders of jewish background have simple explanation to everything.

You can look the other way and come up with ‘tech error’ theories but this was censorship pure and simple. Twitter blocked #Gaza, #flotilla, #Israel while the mainstream media was unforgivably negligent of the entire incident until Turkey expelled the Israel ambassador. I’ve been on twitter for 12 hours now and while the TT by country all show #flotilla in top 4 (barring US & Brazil), the worlwide picture had no mention of it the worldwide

Jewish investors didn’t like it. It’s simple. Twitter lost it’s mainstream media cogent. It’s simply a censorship.

It’s not a technical issue it’s a fucking bullshit.

based on my own observations, ‘flotilla’ should have normally become trending around midnight GMT last night. This was hours before the incident

The only conspiracy is that people keep calling these peace activists – “peace activists”

#flotilla was loading at 100 tweets per minute through the day in Tweetdeck. I couldn’t even search for it on twitter.com. This wasn’t an overnight event that caught all the Twitter staff sleeping. This was a hot issue for the last four days.
FYI, the attack happened in International waters. Now put your preconceptions aside and imagine if these had been Iranian commandos rappelling down those ropes from the helis and boarding an ‘aid convoy/flotilla’ coming from any other country. Let’s not be naive.

But they’re not Iranian commandos…They are Israelis. The only free democratic society in the region. I really hope that most readers here do not have a moral equivalency between Israel and Iran.

a small correction.. it is a humanitarian situation not a political one! wake up people!

Hey, how about saying UPDATED at the TOP of the damned post, instead of saving that for the final paragraph, after everyone has gotten worked up?

You can’t call Israel as a democratic society in this situation. This is simply an attack to the World’s peace.

As a guy from israel I sure hope so that twitter blocked this vicious propaganda against us which pretends to be a peace convoy! Israel allows every day 20K TONS of supply into gaza, what is the purpose of these ships was in the first place rather than making a provocation?! Thos commando soliders were attacked before firing a single shot and were equipped with only pistols and not even guns.
Other than this, you are welcomed not to use any jewish backed and led services and that includes google, facebook, twitter, Microsoft, bloomberg …. it will take me too long, switch to the turkish technology aided services, if you can find any!
BS’er!
But let’s not go into politics right?

Can you clarify what you mean by moral equivalence? Israel may be democratic but it has hardly been a moral beacon.

oh no… you didn’t notice you were a cheeky raciest?! you dont say… sorry, guessing the Muslim in you can overcome the human within you.
Ooops sorry! i didn’t mean to be raciest, i was just being a JEW.

[...] the issue was primarily due to the confusion with Flotilla being a username as well. As TechCrunch reports. Sounds quite a good explanation, but it doesn’t satisfy [...]

Thanks for confirming my point and show us your true colors, why don’t the World just stop using Arab countries Oil *wink*

Don’t you think you have given a lame reason

Hi Sam,
War is tough. And as an American fighting 2 wars, we all can see that the USA is not always acting 100% moral. But USA is the best we’ve got. Israel never had an Abu Graib and has a much lower civilian death rate than the USA.

Brother killing brother,conspiracy,agendas – People’s minds are a ball of confusion! ! !

In 50 years the world will have no choice but to stop using oil, and it’s not like apac is giving it away for free… you are welcomed to check out in the meanwhile some electric cars startups like betterplace.com and other renewable energy companies from israel like solel (now part of siemens) and solaredge (the world leader in the field). As for oil embargo, we’ve been through that already, and we can take ours from other countries which can export other things than oil which was found by english experts *wink* *wink*
Meanwhile your point was, and remained that you have an issue with “jews”

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Hi Ariel

Thanks for giving an honest response. Yes you people have taken over the technology thus you got right to manipulate it according to your will. I wonder whether stupid Rabis also told that by doing all such things they can stop Islam too? If yes then your Rabbis re just fooling you guys around.

And thanks for giving a technological slap. Being a software engineer myself I do feel that heavy dependence on Israal based systems will be very costly for us(Muslims) not for Islam anyway. Tere might not be a Muslim version of Facebook,twitter or Microsoft but could be while several Muslims have took part in the mentioned companies

Once again thanks for your honest feedback

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[...] Butcher of TechCrunch wrote of a possible Algorithm Anomaly which sounds as plausible to us as Israel’s claim the humanitarian ship hit them first, [...]

what about blocking the search for “israil” ?

could you give us another LAME reason for it please?

LOL at not trusting twitter. It’s plain and simple a mistake was made in their algorithm and trend pick up strategy, it is by no means a conspiracy. Get your shit straight.

but how can one explain the fact all world terror related acts are done by Muslims ? can you blame Israel for defending itself ?

It is much less trending than the word Israel. “Israil” word is Turkish and no one but Turkish speakers use the term to access the trending topics.

However “Israel” can cover all around the World and that’s why it’s been blocked.

“we’d appreciate it if you kept your comments to the Twitter aspect of this story as this is a tech blog, many thanks” – yeah, that was never going to happen

Hey Kevin,
Gotta love cellphone camera technology:
http://ht.ly/1S70A

Please do me a favor: don’t give again explanations like this one.

Hey muslims – u mad?

I don’t come to TC to read political angle pieces. Readers can get this elsewhere.

naaaaa…. but here’s a stunning fact: during the past century, over 100 M people were killed in Europe, and less than 100 K people died at the middle east… how about that…

[...] The mystery of the disappearing #flotilla on Twitter [...]

UPDATE 2: Twitter has just got back to us with a statement, posted above.

Israel is a democracy for JEWS only, and violent, barbaric ones at that. Barak is no Seinfeld

Techcrunch is pretty galling in it’s claim not to be political. They censor posts calling for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction of an apartheid regime that glosses over atrocious human rights atrocities like this by presenting a ” budding tech industry” as a smokescreen against criticism.

It’s cool though, every crime Israel commits is written in notebooks, we’ll remember even if Twitter makes it hard to.

Have you seen the pictures ? If those are not guns, then pistols must mean something else to you.

There is no news in this post. Here in US, the news feeds are practically dictated by the isrl lobby. So, this twitter thing is nothing new for us, we just have to accept everything we do is controlled by isrl. From our phone records (that is maintained in isrl) to our phone conversation via eaves dropping system that was built and created by isrl.

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Sure,
My feedback is honest and to the point, and I have no problem with you and your nation or religion, you are welcomed over here to see how Muslims live and work and of course freely exercise their prayers in mosques, a thing which isnt so equivalent to jewish people living in countries Iran, Iraq, or even Egypt which we have a peace agreement with, but what the hack, we don’t make a fuss out of it.
But there is one thing I do wish to point out, and that is it happens to be so interesting that while jewish people have voices from all political spectrum, some how Muslims from Afghanistan or central London have the same voice and that is that Israel must be wiped out. Interesting, I haven’t spoken with a Rabbi since my Bar Mitzva 15 years ago, but I am sure your preachers & Sheikh’s do a better job than ours every friday…

[...] with the news of the incident and the hashtag #flotilla immediately started to trend. However, after a few hours, the hashtag #flotilla disappeared from the trending topics despite the issue being discussed by [...]

Oh i have seen my friend, and you are welcomed to see them and share (i know you wont) which show w/o doubt that these “”"”peace activists”"” attacked the soliders with intention to KILL

-please make sure you log in first, the pictures are not so “peaceful” for under 18ers

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where are those who shouts for free speech now???

write against Holocaust on Facebook it will be removed in 15 mins.

Isn’t michael arrington a jew?

“less than 100 k people died at the middle east…”

Actually more than 500000 died in the Iran- Iraq war alone.

[...] replies claims of [...]

Taxonomists pointed this out as a major problem with tags when they were first used years ago.

The web 2.0 evangelists were too busy orgasming to bother to care.

exhibit a: map showing that this all took place in international waters, which is essentially is a declaration of war since it was a ship flying the flags of 3 countries.

That all said, do you remember the video from last summer where Max Blumenthal interviewed a bunch of Jewish youth in Israel who said some horrendous things and let the world know what they really felt.

First, the search results were skewed where it was buried. Then it was removed. Here’s the follow-up he did last year.

Now don’t insult the intelligence of people by pretending that censorship doesn’t take place. I’m an American, I love this country more than anything else, but it is a crying shame that we have handed the foreign policy of this government over to Israel and the Jewish lobby. Being Jewish and Pro-American are not mutually exclusive, but when the interests of this country take a back seat to the interests of Israel, then those people need to be charged with treason.

The aid to Israel needs to stop now. And the same goes for the equally abhorrent aid we give to Egypt.

[...] users take it pretty seriously. Earlier today, TechCrunch Europe blogger Mike Butcher reported the disappearance of #flotilla hashtags attached to tweets about the fatal fight between Israeli naval commandos and members of a flotilla [...]

As an american involved in politics – I can say with confidence that the USA has NEVER acted in favor of Israel and not in its own interests. All pro Israel policies and actions are clearly for USA interests alone. The reason that some Israelis feel contempt for Obama is because recently Obama has felt that the interests of Israel are not not USA interests now. And Israelis disagree. It has never been in USA interest to create another Islamic terrorist state in the Middle East – like Syria. And that is what the Palestinians are. And USA is interested in USA, which is more countries like Israel and less countries like Syria. Simple

Twitter is back to censoring FreedomFlotilla. “Technical issue”? Yeah right.

i don’t believe this is a technical problem. they are apparently censoring hashtags related to this issue.

Are people on the ship attacking with wooden stick against fully equipped Israeli soldiers covered by Israeli helicopters right on their head? You gotta be kidding me.

[...] Mike Butcher at Techcrunch points out that this surely was a case of anti-spam filtering: there had already been a “flotilla” [...]

At 09:00 GMT (02:00 Pacific time) #flotilla was trending for Canada (position 2), Ireland (position 1) and UK (position 3), NOT worldwide and NOT US. Entering #flotilla in my home page search box gave NO results at all, though it worked in search.twitter.com (I’m in Greece). Clicking #İsrail (turkish orthography) in the Trending Topics sidebar of my home page equally gave NO results.

I can’t explain all that with the simple logic in the article.

Mike Butcher has butchered this blog post with biases. People, we know the road of all good intentions leads to hell. We know the NSA, the CIA and many intelligences from the US government have a hands in silicon valley, mining all the information from facebook, google, twitter, and all the major known social networking sites whether through legal mean or given away by the very companies. What China, pakistan and other autocratics government are doing is not so different from our own. I am glad and super glad that people are paying attention. As for keeping the conversation on topic, i do not see anyone deviates from talking about how a tech company is hindering free flow of information where their interests lie. Nobody is talking about alien or space station. Just Chill Mike,

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[...] Mike Butcher at Techcrunch points out that this surely was a case of anti-spam filtering: there had already been a “flotilla” [...]

Gaza Blockades and Social Media Blockheads…

So, today Israeli Commandos boarded a ship running a blockade into Gaza in international waters and managed to shoot a bunch of the crew who attacked them with chairs and bits of metal. Now this episode raises some fascinating issues – legality of bloc…

I don’t use Twitter but from what I can tell from news reports, e.g. from Iranian dissidents, they appear to have the courage to not suppress controversial topics, unlike Google or Facebook.

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Slingshot,

With a level of ignorance bordering on an adolescent gerbil, you have no place in politics. It is your breed of ignorance that has put this country in peril.

Please refer to this paper to begin your path towards enlightenment.

http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0040.pdf

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@selim,
I can’t find the source for the organization funding terror group, so I am taking this statement back.. sorry.

However, regarding the situation on the boat, watching these videos convinced me that the people on board was not peace activists. They wanted a fight. period. they ordered it, you can’t argue with evidence.

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[...] Butcher (@mikebutcher) from TechCrunch Europe outlined in great details the technicalities of the hashtag disappearance to conclude it related to Twitter’s anti-spam [...]

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Did you at least reread what you wrote, or were you born definitely dumb ?

Go sit on a bottle !

now there is no sence to lie to ourself that freedom of speech is still exist. its not.

‘But given that censorship of popular hashtags is not in Twitter’s DNA’

I call bull. They have previous. Remember #nogod?

[...] the issue was primarily due to the confusion with Flotilla being a username as well. As TechCrunch reports. Sounds quite a good explanation, but it doesn’t satisfy [...]

[...] This is why I love twitter. It’s so immediate. If something happens that people care about and feel passionately about, it can spread like wildfire. It’s a great source of news because you no longer have to rely on the newspapers or TV to find out what is going on. Newspaper and TV have a bias and censorship depending on who runs them and their political aims and affiliations. Twitter doesn’t. Even accusations of censorship during the raid on the flotilla on Monday were likely to have been false, and probably caused by twitter’s own spam algorithm which mistakenly marked it as hashtag spam. [...]

many times videos on youtube had either been removed or view counts changed by mouse looking jews. the media attention that uselss shit twitter gets indicated mices are also behind twitter in their sorry dream of manipulating humanity

Ariel I just hope you Jews are not thinking that you are feeding the whole world population and giving them life. For a proof i can say fuck you all and you all Jews look like mouse and your life on earth is miserable will be miserable and have been miserable. You think world depend on your microsoft, google, cnn, fox, twitter facebook or its other way around and you depend on these tools for your survival? I challenge you to stop these businesses and services for one day and see if the world will die down without using services of you mouses.

The fact i can say fuck you all mouse looking jews is a proof you have no control on me, and i am way more happy than you fucks. Come on, if you have control on microsoft, cnn, google, facebook, coke and twitter, dare to stop operation of these companies for even a month? You will all fucking starve. These thingies are your need for survival and humans can shit on them any day and stop using them any day. Your pipe dream of controlling world will never be successful because humans have ability to be free and specially cannot be controlled by some mouse looking phsycos.

I wish you dont think its fucking Israelis jews who are converting the seeds into fruits and vegetables that is feeding the world. You fucks are just spoiling humans. Feeling like God? Try put your head in a basin full of water in your bathroom, or try not to drink water for a day. You will know your worth.

A person is racist if he does something. Now you are equating two people: a person burning jews in camps with gas and a person saying why #flotilla was removed from twitter. I hope you manipulating mouse shit face will understand.

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[...] Butcher (@mikebutcher) from TechCrunch Europe outlined in great details the technicalities of the hashtag disappearance to conclude it related to Twitter’s anti-spam [...]

well .. some tweeps here thought that there’s some kind of conspiracy among twitter and Israeli ..

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