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Google censoring blogs just as India wanted

Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012 by Abhijit

Google has begun redirecting Blogger traffic to country-specific URLs, meaning whatever country you’re in, you’ll get that country’s domain for Blogger-hosted blogs. Here are some of the views expressed online. Continue reading →

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Twitter can censor tweets by country

Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012 by Abhijit

Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis. It’s a victory for countries like China and India which block or threaten to block websites carrying “objectionable” content. Twitter seems … Continue reading →

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Twitter developing tech to evade censors

Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Abhijit

Twitter is developing technology aimed at preventing the governments of China and Iran from censoring Tweets, co-founder Evan Williams told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports Wired, quoting the Financial Times. Williams can be followed on … Continue reading →

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Singapore newspapers censor PM’s BBC interview

Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by Abhijit

It’s amusing to see the Singapore newspapers have not run the complete BBC interview with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The broadsheet Straits Times and the freesheet Today have not published the last question asked in  the interview, which can … Continue reading →

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