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courtenaybird:

Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.

“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.”

Twitter will microcensor in certain countries.

After looking at the article, it looks like this is actually an improvement on their previous actions regarding censorship:

“Until now, the company explained, if a tweet had to be removed, it would vanish from Twitter pages worldwide. The company did not have the ability to selectively remove it country by country. Twitter declined to say how many posts it had removed in the past because it was asked to by a government authority. Twitter said it withheld content only in response to request from United States law enforcement officials.”

Just an observation. Looks like Twitter might be trying to get on the good side of countries that have censorship policies, like China perhaps?