Twitter blackout: A protest born of ignorance — but questions remain

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An increasing number of Twitter users are planning to boycott Twitter tomorrow, January 28, in protest of its newly-announced policy that it will censor individual tweets in certain countries that require it to do so. At first glance, this reaction is completely understandable. Censorship is, after all, a bad thing. Free speech should be protected, fought for. Just because a totalitarian regime restricts certain speech doesn't mean Twitter should automatically bend over and take it. That's what Twitter used to believe. Right?