Twitter quiety offers a way past its censors, high fructose corn syrup may not just be "corn sugar," and YouTube gets a feature refresh.
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- Is Twitter Helping Users Get Around Its New Censorship Rules? A link near the end of yesterday's official announcement leads to Twitter's help page detailing how to change your "Country" setting, including a "Worldwide" option with no restrictions. [ReadWriteWeb]
- FTC Head Calls Out Facebook, Google on Data Privacy Day: In a speech streamed on Facebook Live, Commisioner Julie Brill emphasized that the FTC expects sites to act on solid privacy principles, noting that "Facebook and Google learned this the hard way." [MSNBC Technolog]
- Study: Sugar & HFCS Not As Identical as Some Would Have You Believe: Researchers found that HFCS has "significantly different acute metabolic effects," including an increase in blood pressure. [The Consumerist]
- YouTube Release Notes: Updates to Browse Page, Video Editor and Video Manager: The refresh adds more videos to the Browse page, more information to the Video Manager, and features like a timeline and improved clip trimming to the Video Editor. [YouTube Blog]
- Twitter Uncloaks a Year's Worth of DMCA Takedown Notices, 4,410 in All: The collection at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Chilling Effects project site includes the full text of all notices Twitter has received since November of 2010. [Ars Technica]
