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Twitter Censuring Tweets In Pakistan

On a case-by-case basis, Twitter appears to be blocking tweets in Pakistan. “At least five times this month, a Pakistani bureaucrat … asked Twitter to shield his compatriots from exposure to accounts, tweets or searches of the social network that he described as ‘blasphemous’ or ‘unethical,’” The New York Times reports.  “The blocking of these tweets … in Pakistan … is the first time the social network has agreed to withhold content there.”
 

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