# Can the Government Block Me on Twitter?: 2018 Year in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/can-government-block-me-twitter-2018-year-review>

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- Saved: December 27, 2018 (2018-12-28T00:33:32Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

I continue to find this topic interesting, and I wish it would be taken a level higher. Why is it okay for government to use a service like Facebook to share information with citizens? Facebook and Twitter require you to create an account and be surveilled. Why is it okay for a government elected by citizens to choose a medium that requires creating an account with a for profit entity and then being surveilled to get information. Email doesn't suffer this problem, and works just fine. And, I don't think a government we elect should be allowed to block us. That takes it to the extreme of requiring surveillance to get the information, and then blocking citizens from even seeing the information.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT86: Weekly Thing #86 / Dec 29, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/86/), Featured Links 🏅

## Same host

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- [In WSJ Op-Ed, Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/683e560b9781/) (eff.org, January 31, 2019)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/can-government-block-me-twitter-2018-year-review