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Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor

(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 ...

Sat 28 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

Twitter faces user backlash over move to censor messages

Twitter was facing a backlash from its users last night after the website said it had the technology to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis.

Fri 27 Jan 12 from The Independent

Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship

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.

Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship, Fri 27 Jan 12 from USA today

Concern over Twitter's country-by-country censorship ability

Twitter is facing a backlash from its users after the website said it had the technology to censor tweets on a country by country basis.

Fri 27 Jan 12 from The Independent

Twitter's block move 'collaborating with censors': RSF

Media rights group Reporters Without Borders on Friday slammed Twitter's announcement that it could now block tweets from appearing in a specific country as "collaborating with the censors".

Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries

(AP) -- Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries, Fri 27 Jan 12 from USA today

Twitter censorship? Posts now yanked country by country.

Twitter messages can now be censored on a per-country basis, allowing posts that are problematic in one country to still appear in others. But some worry this means Twitter has turned its back ...

Fri 27 Jan 12 from The Christian Science Monitor

Twitter filters content by geographical boundaries

Fri 27 Jan 12 from Ubergizmo