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EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this picture taken Tuesday Feb. ...

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Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:30:01 +0100
(AP) - EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this picture taken Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012, the body of a man shot to death lies in the street as investigators work the crime scene in Guatemala City. President Otto Pérez Molina will meet on Monday Feb. 13 with El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes to address issues related to regional security and how to coordinate their fight against organized crime. Perez has blamed the drug cartels for the high levels of violence in his country of 13 million overrun by gangs and the Mexican cartels, with a rate of 41 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, nearly three times that of neighboring Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Google, Facebook remove "offensive" content in India

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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:30:14 +0100
Responding to strong government pressure to remove content offensive to Indian politicians and religious groups, Google India has removed an unspecified number of sites and images from Google services in the country (reportedly including Blogger and YouTube) in response to an ongoing court case. ... (Source: Digital Trends)

Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:10:10 +0100
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 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. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday. It said even with the possibility of such restrictions, Twitter would not be able to coexist with some countries. ... (Source: Reuters)

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Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:10:02 +0100
(AP) - EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the semi-official Fars News Agency, people gather around shattered glass and human remains in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mehdi Marizad)

Twitter criticizes Google+ content in search results

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Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:40:09 +0100
Google recently announced changes to its formula which push Google+ and Picassa content to the forefront of search results. Twitter soon expressed its dislike for the search changes in an official statement. (Source: Digital Trends)