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Global Times Backs Twitter Policy

Twitter’s new censorship policy may have irked Ai Wei Wei, but China’s state-run Global Times welcomed the new rules in a Monday editorial: Many regard this declaration of adapting to local censorship laws as a pragmatic move as Twitter expands into an increasing number of countries. As the blog post said, “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have