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Why does this receive so little coverage in Australia?
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On topic (hopefully): Is it failure to report certain issues, or is it that reports made and published are being suppressed?
Vexnews, a news service that posts links on Twitter to already published online items worldwide, posted this tweet http://twitter.com/#!/vexnews/status/126201112486363136 at 6:41 PM AEDST yesterday, 18 October 2011. Clicking on the link in it, http://t.co/Etl5phLr , yielded a '404 notice', 'page not found'. See: http://twitpic.com/72bwt8
One would think there would have had to have been an article in existence online in the first case for Vexnews to have read and attempted to link to it.
So did Vexnews make a typo in the link it provided, was the original online news item page taken down for some reason by the (UK) Telegraph newspaper, or was the link originally posted on Twitter by Vexnews subsequently altered (by some agency other than Vexnews) in some small respect such as to make it yield a '404 notice'?
If a capability exists to do the last-mentioned, it could be used as a form of covert, at least partial, if not quite censorship of news, suppression of its spread.
I did note recently, in an online discussion about Twitter hashtags, claims by some posters following an 'Occupy Wall Street' hashtag that despite a large number of posts to it, that particular topic was not showing up as a trending topic on Twitter. This engendered the suspicion that Twitter may be the source of, or subject to, interference with tweets. FWIW, these posters did seem to have hard information as to respective hashtag traffic volumes upon which to base their suspicions.
Things are so transient online. First you see them. Then you don't. Thats why I take screenshots and post them as twitpics.