Twitter can block tweets depending on country
Twitter; one of the most widely used social networking websites in the world has this week announced that they have developed technology that will allow them to block certain tweets on a country by country basis. Twitter has announced on its blog that it is able to reactively withhold certain content from users in specific countries but that the removed content would still be available to users in other parts of the world.
Twitter is currently expanding their business globally and this technology will really help Twitter when it comes to expanding into countries that have different privacy laws and views on freedom of expression. For example, the technology will be used in countries such as France and Germany which ban pro-Nazi content and will also have a lot of application in other countries around the world.
Twitter and many other social networking websites have played huge parts is the organising of many protests over the past few years and it is feared by some people that this new technology will mean that content like this will be blocked out of certain countries and will block freedom of speech.
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