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Twitter, championed as a tool of free expression during the Arab Spring, was facing censorship charges on Friday after announcing it can now block tweets on a country-by-country basis if legally required to do so.
Outrage follows company's plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws
Twitter has embraced censorship, many fear -- and the world’s most repressive regimes are applauding the move.
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.
China, one of the world's largest Internet markets, could be out of reach of Facebook because of the Chinese government's strict censorship policies, the company said in its filing for an initial public offering (IPO).
Twitter, championed as a tool of free expression during the Arab Spring, was facing censorship charges on Friday after announcing it can now block tweets on a country-by-country basis if legally required to do so.
Comic book ban highlights Vietnam's censorship struggle; youth find ways to circumvent control
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.
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. Twitter announced in a blog post Thursday that it will now block specific tweets on a country-by-country basis should the messages violate the laws of those ...
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 using the hash tag #TwitterBlackout.
