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.
It was a stunning role reversal for a youthful company that prides itself in promoting unfettered expression, 140 characters at a time. Twitter insisted its commitment to free speech remains firm, and sought to explain the nuances of its policy, while critics - in a barrage of tweets - proposed a Twitter boycott and demanded that the censorship initiative be scrapped.
"This is very bad news," tweeted Egyptian activist Mahmoud Salem, who operates under the name Sandmonkey. Later, he wrote, "Is it safe to say that (hash)Twitter is selling us out?"
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very bad news, especially when taken in context of the "rest of the story"...
They want to explain the "nuances" of their policy. Thats a big joke. The "nuances"? They give every government agent the IP addresses, names, history, and associations of anyone they ask about....profit trumps everything....Just like Microsoft, Google, and all the other companies trafficking in information, they don't give a damn about who gets killed in China, or who gets tortured in Syria, or who "disappears" in Mexico. As long as the revenue flows, its all good. That is the cold hard truth.
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