Twitter announced recently that it will have the ability to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. Back in the day, last year, when Twitter erased a tweet it disappeared throughout the world.
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Now, a tweet containing content breaking a law in one country can be taken down there and still be seen elsewhere, according to a report by Fox News.
Twitter will post a censorship notice whenever a tweet is removed. That’s similar to what Internet search leader Google Inc. has been doing for years when a law in a country where its service operates requires a search result to be removed.
Like Google, Twitter also plans to the share the removal requests it receives from governments, companies and individuals at the chillingeffects.org website.
The similarity to Google’s policy isn’t coincidental. Twitter’s general counsel is Alexander Macgillivray, who helped Google draw up its censorship policies while he was working at that company.
“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice,” Twitter wrote in a blog post. “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.”
Twitter joins Google, Nokia and handful of tech companies who are, allegedly, cooperating with governments around the world. With the crackdown on piracy, and social media hijacking the privacy of users, the Internet is changing and not for the better.
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SOURCE: FoxNews & Digital Trends
