Twitter Can Censor by Country

[Jack]

After years of touting itself as a champion of free expression on the Internet, Twitter Inc. on Friday touched off a torrent of criticism after it announced it can now remove messages from the online service within specific countries if asked to do so.

A backlash from Twitter users and free-speech advocates came one day after the micro-blogging service announced the change, noting that it is bound to enter "countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression."

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[Jack]

Can't say I was expecting this to happen,will be interesting to see what they'll actually censor..... Things like 'Down with the government" or "Get you FIFA 2020 Crack at this site"
And If you were going to tweet 'Down With The Government' or support a illegal thing ... Couldn't you just avoid censorship by using a proxy so that your tweets will appear as they are from another country?

 

[Valentin N]

Can't say I was expecting this to happen,will be interesting to see what they'll actually censor..... Things like 'Down with the government" or "Get you FIFA 2020 Crack at this site"
And If you were going to tweet 'Down With The Government' or support a illegal thing ... Couldn't you just avoid censorship by using a proxy so that your tweets will appear as they are from another country?

Through VPN would be a possibility, like CTC and other.

I already dislike that everything on youtube get "censored" just because you want to hear some music that is not from your country... I hope we don't turn the democracy into dictatorship. We should have the liberty to see what we want. Our society is turning to a global society and creating censorship won't make us much better than China or South Korea (I hope I didn't mix south and north).