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)
• LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It was only two weeks ago that Twitter was protesting online censorship in the form of anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Now the social networking site faces a surge of opposition to its own censorship practices.
(Chicago Tribune)
• 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)
• Advertised prices for flights must include all taxes and fees under new rules taking effect this week for airlines to eliminate some of the unwanted cost surprises for air travelers.
(Columbus Dispatch)
• WASHINGTON: US today said it will wait and watch how micro-blogging site Twitter implements its censorship policy.
(Economic Times)
• This screen shot shows a portion of the Twitter blog post of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in which the company announced it has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.
(Abington Mariner)
• 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)
• Imagine a global chat room where anyone anywhere can express themselves however they want.
(The Faster Times)
• Twitter is the place where people can post anything they like without fear of censorship. The only way for Twitter to remove any offending tweet is to remove them globally.
(Waleg.com)
• Thursdays announcement that Twitter had refined its technology to censor messages on a country-by-country basis raised fears that the companys commitment to free speech may be weakening.
(Grand Forks Herald)