Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

[Derrick]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/42273-twitter-will-restrict-user-content-in-some-countries.html

Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in specific countries, renewing questions about how the social media platform will handle issues of free speech as it rapidly expands its global user base...

 

[LazyLion]

Very poor show!

 

[grok]

Tell me again why I should trust a (any) corporation, who usually is only in it for the money, to censor anything on my behalf?

Looks like it's time for a twitter blackout.

 

[Creag]

@Pigspotter will probably be the first that JMPD call for censure of.

 

[Totempole]

Twitter gave as examples of restrictions it might cooperate with, such as “pro-Nazi content” in France and Germany, where it is banned.

Really? So “pro-Nazi content” is legal in the rest of the world? Israel too?