Friday, January 27, 2012

Twitter censorship

  • 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)

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