goddessofcheese: maybethings: ooliquidnightoo: And So It Goes: Twitter To Censor Tweets In Some Countries SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday. GDI, Twitter! Welp. Oh that’s great. “Hey guys, our platform helped effect actual change in real governments; let’s have no more of that”.

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And So It Goes: Twitter To Censor Tweets In Some Countries

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday.

GDI, Twitter!

Welp.

Oh that’s great. “Hey guys, our platform helped effect actual change in real governments; let’s have no more of that”.

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Source: The Huffington Post