Using its country-specific content-blocking tool for the first time, Twitter has shut down access to a neo-Nazi group's account in Germany.
"Never want to withhold content; good to have tools to do it narrowly & transparently," Alex Macgillivray, Twitter's general counsel, tweeted last night. "We announced the ability to withhold content back in Jan. We're using it now for the first time re: a group deemed illegal in Germany."
Dirk Hensen, a spokesman for Twitter, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the account @hannoverticker has been blocked only in Germany, where its content is considered illegal.
Twitter's content-blocking tool is designed to enable the micro-blogging site to remove illegal content in a particular country, while allowing it to remain available for everyone else.
Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232557/In_world_first_Twitter_blocks_neo_Nazi_account_in_Germany
