- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- In a carefully worded blog post yesterday, Twitter announced a new capability to censor tweets by country. (TechNewsDaily)
- 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)
- Jeff Jarvis, a media commentator, said the move set Twitter onto the "slippery slope of censorship". "I understand why Twitter is doing this, they want to be able to enter more countries and deal with the local laws. (Hindustan Times)
- 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, Google is integrating its websites more. As a result, some privacy settings will apply network-wide, and one site will be able to use data from another site. People are flipping out, naturally. People have been giving Google this data for ages. (RedState)
- So far, it appears Twitter has only responded to censorship requests from American lawyers demanding links to copyrighted material be taken down. (Hamilton Spectator)
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Twitter censorship
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