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reuters:

A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.
Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

After what happened with Occupy and the Arab Spring you’re gonna play us like this, Twitter?
The fuck? I thought we had a good thing going here.

A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.

Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

After what happened with Occupy and the Arab Spring you’re gonna play us like this, Twitter?

The fuck? I thought we had a good thing going here.

01/27/12

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I was blindfolded in a makeshift prison, who knows where. I’d been there for six or seven days, and was beginning to lose hope. I thought of my wife and kids, and began to question why I’d got involved, why I’d returned to my homeland. I didn’t think I’d ever get out, but I knew this was a cause worth dying for. I thought to myself, it doesn’t matter whether you live to 30 or 70, it’s what you do with those years.

Wael Ghonim, 31, created the Facebook page We Are All Khaled Said that played a key role in the Egyptian uprising in January 2011 – protesters tell us their stories here
(via guardian

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(via guardian)

01/15/12

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