Twitter censorship

• NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or tweets, remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a gauntlet of different laws around the world.
(Times-Leader)
• 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)
• Twitters announcement to censor tweets from countries with more restrictive speech laws incited outcry on the Internet, but there are ways to get around the new regulations.
(International Business Times)
• In a carefully worded blog post yesterday, Twitter announced a new capability to censor tweets by country.
(TechNewsDaily)
• A Twitter blackout aimed at protesting censorship on the social media site is sweeping the web as its proponents urge users to go dark Saturday.
(International Business Times)
• Did a Saudi Prince's investment in Twitter have anything to do with the recent Twitter censorship announcement? Most of Twitter's users seems to think so.
(WebProNews)
• 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)
• 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)
• So far, it appears Twitter has only responded to censorship requests from American lawyers demanding links to copyrighted material be taken down.
(Hamilton Spectator)