Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's text messages to top aide Christine Beatty were recently released. (Flickr user another_point_in_time (cc: by-nc-sa))
Twitter has announced that they will censor communication in some countries. This has sparked concern among users as the social media platform has become vital to pro-democracy movements around the world. How will this affect normal Twitter users? Which one of your tweets might be censored? Mark Gregory, technology correspondent for our partner the BBC, tells us more.
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This is a big mistake on part of Twitter. It's one thing to have a country block Twitter because they fear what it's capable of in the hands of the people. It's another thing for Twitter themselves to block what the people are trying to say from reaching the masses. Twitter is keeping the real villains from appearing like villains. Twitter is now in the business of protecting the villains and monsters.
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