Twitter has decided to censor Tweets on a country-by-country basis.
In a Twitter blog post Twitter says,
“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there”1.
In order for Twitter to be available in some of these countries they will have to censor Tweets. In the past to conform with countries with less freedom of expression rights Twitter would block the Tweet globally. The new plan would only censor the Tweet in the country that doesn’t want it displayed.
Twitter says they will alert users if a particular Tweet is being censored.
Do you think this a good idea for Twitter?
- http://blog.twitter.com/2012/01/tweets-still-must-flow.html [↩]
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