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The revolution will not be tweeted

0 comments | Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Can censorship ever be a good thing? Twitter wants you to think so, but the company appears to have stepped on a slippery slope coated in lard.

Twitter recently announced a new feature by which it could and would block certain Tweets and accounts in selective parts of the world when the message or the user ran afoul of local laws. Previously, if the company had to block a Tweet, it had to do so globally.

Twitter is pitching this as a good thing. A message may be banned in Bangalore, but remain visible in Bangor.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/31/revolution-will-not-be-tweeted/#ixzz1l4BTcNUN

posted by Ed McMahon

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