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Twitter Now Censoring Per Country
Protest starts tomorrow.

Here is what Twitter is doing: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/twitter-block-tweets-nationally-globally.html

Here is how users are responding: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/twitter-nation-specific-block-backlash.html

Forget all this crap about Google being evil with Google Search Plus Your World, Twitter is actively censoring Tweets for individual Governments! If a particular country outlaws certain speech, that country can censor any and all tweet and or Twitter user that appear to users in the censoring country.

Are you in Britain and criticizing the government in Iran? Censored!

Are you in the US and support Tibet? Censored!

Are you in Egypt trying to get out your message to the US? Censored!

This absolutely destroys the core, fundamental reason for the legitimacy and respectability of Twitter!

Read the article, and if you are on twitter, join the #TwitterBlackout protest tomorrow!

#TwitterBlackout: Tweeters protest nation-specific blocks

Twitter is faced a growing backlash on Friday, less than a day after it announced that it can now block specific tweets from being published in specific countries that legally require it.

On Friday…