A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.
Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries
Not cool.
very worrying.
so what ever happened to all the US congressional and administration officials bleating about how important the free and open internet is for democracy worldwide as long as it was happening in someone else’s potential democracy?
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I think that’s the point of this. I can’t remember where I saw the article, but it broke it done that Twitter’s policy...
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