Twitter complies with Turkey's 'national security' blackout demand – BLOCKS newspaper's tweets
Found on The Register on Sunday, 18 January 2015
Turkey has once again browbeat Twitter into censoring some of the content posted on the micro-blogging site, after being threatened with an outright ban in the country.
According to the New York Times, officials had told news organisations to cease reporting on a military police raid on spooks' trucks that had been destined for Syria in January 2014.
Turkey argued that revealing details of the police raid, after documents of legal proceedings relating to the story were leaked online, could damage national security.
Or Twitter could have put up a site for visitors from Turkey telling them that they were forced to disable access because of censorship pressure from the government.