According to their blog Twitter announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis.
The decision has been criticised by the freedom of information advocacy group Reporters Without Borders.
The move comes at a time when Twitter is in the process of expanding its global business.
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.
Exactly why the company chose to make the change now remains unclear, except for its global ambitions. Twitter is blocked in China, where microblogging alternatives known as Weibo have surged in popularity in the past year.
Facebook and Google can also take down content that is illegal in a particular country or violates the companies’ terms of services.
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