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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. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.
Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. 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. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.
Really, Twitter? “Different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression”? Call it censorship, because that’s what it is.
I understand that Twitter, being a comercial company, wants to grow and expand its service even in markets where free speech doesn’t exists or is very limited (think China for example) - but it is really sad to see that there is only one year between Twitter’s glowing “Fredom of Expression” blogpost and the one I quoted above.
Quo vadis, Twitter?
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