The announcement signals the choice that a service like Twitter has to make about its own existence: Should it be more of a free-speech tool that can be used in defiance of governments, as happened during the Arab Spring protests, or a commercial venture that necessarily must obey the laws of the lands where it seeks to attract customers and eventually make money?
Seven water companies are introducing restrictions on water use following one of the driest two-year periods on record, with domestic customers facing a £1,000 fine if they use their hosepipe in defiance of the ban.
Measured in terms of a nation's capacity to use the seas in defiance of rivals and competitors, it consists of such diverse elements as combat craft and weapons, auxiliary craft, commercial shipping, bases, and trained personnel.
See articleA report from Amnesty International, a human-rights group, said that China and Russia are supplying arms to the Sudanese government for use in Darfur in defiance of a weapons ban by the United Nations.
He either railed against hypocrisy or used it spectacularly, in defiance of mediocre hypocrites who showed off mere pretensions, but no real class.
I pass that on as my penance, and in the fond hope that my copy editor has not changed the word piece -- a current term of art used above thrice in defiance of the stylebook -- to the bland article.
Ed Hall, director of voucherseeker.co.uk, the new kid on the discount code website block which launched in December, says many websites used to (and, in defiance of the IAB code, some still do) encourage consumers to click on to a retailer's name and go into their website, only to discover that no discount code is on offer.
Jennings, George says, wants to "use our elementary schools in defiance of the wishes of parents, to use our elementary schools to teach pro-sexual-liberationist, pro-homosexualist propaganda".
Google's use of such systems in defiance of the settings of the user's browser is the first time the company has been found doing so.
