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POINT: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over
the company's new country-by-country censorship policy on Monday,
complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind
of shorthand that has made Twitter popular.Speaking at the All
Things D conference, Costolo repeated the company's justification for
the policy change it announced last week: By taking down tweets only in
the country where Twitter believes they may have violated local laws, it
is making sure the maximum 140-character-long messages are still
available to the rest of the world.Twitter's reasoning has been
mostly lost in a...
