- NEW YORK -- Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. (Huffington Post)
- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America said Friday they were afraid that new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression. (Yahoo Finance)
- NEW YORK | Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. (The Ledger)
- Twitters wings have received a bit of a clipping with the first signs of mass regional censorship being hinted at by the micro-blogging platform. (Pocket-lint.com)
- Reactions to Twitter Censorship Announcement: Twitter's announced yesterday that it now has the ability to censor content on a country-by-country basis. (Wall Street Journal)
- Twitter has introduced country-specific censorship of tweets. (Econsultancy)
- Twitter has announced in a blog post a glorious new ability: "the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. (Boston Globe)
- In a carefully worded blog post yesterday, Twitter announced a new capability to censor tweets by country. (TechNewsDaily)
- Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc. is changing its policy on censorship of messages, giving itself the ability to withhold tweets on a country-by-country basis, rather than globally. (Businessweek)
- LEADING THE DAY:Google, facing growing scrutiny over its approach to consumer privacy, said Thursday it would open its social networking site to teenagers, The Washington Post reported. (Washington Post)
Friday, January 27, 2012
Twitter censorship
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