Will Killing Google Reader Increase Global Censorship?

After Google unceremoniously announced it would be killing Reader later this year, much of the outraged response focused on its use in the U.S

But there's a whole other aspect to the service: for thousands of users around the world, it's one of the few ways they can get around their country's censors.

A "save Google Reader" petition hosted by Change.org has received 125,000 signatures so far. And as Change.org revealed to Mashable Monday, 75% of those signatures come from users outside the U.S. — and 12% of them total say they live in countries that Reporters Without Borders or the OpenNet Initiative report say have active Internet censorship by government forces.