Twitter users threaten boycott over censorship accusation

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:04pm |

By Julian Borger and Charles Arthur, Guardian.co.uk, Jan. 27, 2012

[....] The company was accused of censorship by many users and threatened with a one-day boycott on Saturday after announcing that it could remove tweets in certain countries which have "different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression".

Twitter insisted that it would not use the gagging system in a blanket fashion, but would apply it on a case-by-case basis, as it happens when governments or organisations complain about individual tweets. But the reassurances were not enough to prevent a torrent of outrage from twitter users and freedom of speech campaigners [.....]

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