Social Media Company, Twitter has announced they would start deleting tweets of users in certain country but the tweet would remain undeleted in the rest of the world.

This is a major move by twitter to curb tweets that could prove harmful to their usage in those countries. Most countries have limits and twitter is just obeying that.

“We hold freedom of expression in high esteem and work hard not to remove Tweets,” Twitter spokeswoman Jodi Olson wrote in an e-mail to CNN.

“And just to be clear, this is not a change in philosophy and there are still countries to which we will not go,” she said.

As examples of countries where tweets may have to be restricted, Twitter mentioned Germany and France, which ban pro-Nazi content. Twitter will operate in those countries while censoring pro-Nazi tweets, for example.

But some countries are so restrictive with freedom of expression that Twitter can’t exist there at all, the company said.

“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice,” Twitter wrote in a blog entry Thursday. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can’t. The Tweets must continue to flow.”

But one observer said the move is blatant censorship.

“There’s no way around that. But alas, Twitter is not above the law,” according to Jillian York, the director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and privacy online.

York said she acknowledges that Twitter, like other companies hosting user-generated content, has at some point faced a government order or request to take down content.

“Twitter has two options in the event of a request: fail to comply, and risk being blocked by the government in question, or comply (read: censor). And if they have ‘boots on the ground,’ so to speak, in the country in question? No choice,” she wrote.

The company is simply “doing its best in a tough situation,” she said.

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Fake news. Can't believe this made the front page. SICK!

Check CNN. It's on their news.

obowunmi:

Fake news. Can't believe this made the front page. SICK!

Its not fake its in CNN, no go sick die o

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/27/tech/twitter-deleting-posts/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Immediately I read this, I thought of GEJ. I know he is social-networking-site active and probably has received more derision than any body on the internet this year

I'm not really suprised, afterall one rich arab dude recently invested 100s of millions of dollars into twitter- they better not shoot themselves in d foot

This is for real but maybe not as bad as it looks like. Instead of deleting tweets in all countries they will only delete them in countries where they're illegal.

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Still on my Facebook, don't like twitter anyways.

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Free speech under threat, don't think i need twitter any longer. Would delete my account right away.

which are the countries?

Yeske!:

Free speech under threat

Exactly! Not in anyway different from SOPA/PIPA. . Censoring people's tweets. .

Thank God i hate Twitter.

so the censorship of the internet is going universal

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not a twitter fan anyway

^^^^^

what is tweeter? who is following who ? very boring something

if dm like,make dm delete the whole site.
Aint a fan anyways!

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I knew twitter wasn't above the law, let them do w@ they hafta do, i smell boredom coming,

Let hope that this won't lead to something else.