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Twitter’s Censors Provoke Backlash – Wall Street Journal

Jan28
2012
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BY AMIR EFRATI

After years of touting itself as a champion of free expression on the Internet, Twitter Inc. on Friday touched off a torrent of criticism after it announced it can now remove messages from the online service within specific countries if asked to do so.

A backlash from Twitter users and free-speech advocates came one day after the micro-blogging service announced the change, noting that it is bound to enter “countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression.”

The San Francisco-based company, whose website allows people to broadcast short messages called “tweets,” didn’t specify particular countries it …

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