Technolog - How to easily circumvent Twitter's censorship. By Rosa Golijan Sam Spratt On Thursday, Twitter announced plans to restrict tweets in certain countries. By Friday, some clever folks already figured out an incredibly simple way to circumvent the service's censorship. Anna Haim of The Next Web explains that Twitter's own Help Center actually reveals the trick. Here's how it all works. Since content is going to be blocked on a country-by-country basis, Twitter has to identify the country from which you're viewing tweets. Twitter Twitter's Help Center provides instructions on how to change your country setting if you believe that your location has been misidentified by the service.
Or — as you might guess — you can easily fib a little bit and switch the country setting to one in which a particular tweet isn't censored. Yes, circumventing Twitter's country-by-country censorship is that simple. So now if you ever spot a grayed-out tweet similar to the example above, you know what to do in order to find out what it says. Related stories: When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It’s #Outrage. Twitter Commits Social Suicide. Twitter Announces It May Now "Withhold" Different Tweets In Different Countries. Twitter Will Censor Your Tweets If a Country Tells It To.