“That’s what I’ve been told,” he told AFP, when asked about reports of the China block on the new Internet phenomenon.<\/p>\n
“I have heard reports on that,” he added on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, but said the company did not have direct confirmation.<\/p>\n
Williams said China can use a firewall to block the microblogging service used by millions around the world — but that Twitter was not “actively” looking for ways to get around any block.<\/p>\n
“There are ways for users to get around it, but I’m not an expert on that.”<\/p>\n
When asked about media reports that Twitter was developing ways to get around the firewall, Williams said he had been “misquoted.”<\/p>\n
“We’re not actively developing any way to get around it,” he said, although he stressed that “we’re for the free exchange of information.”<\/p>\n
Asked if his company had noticed cyber attacks, such as those launched against search engine giant Google from China, he said no such moves had been detected.<\/p>\n
Google had threatened to pull out of China over the attacks as well as over censorship in China which it opposed.<\/p>\n
Google’s chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt stressed during a Davos panel session that it “does not then follow that we want to not be in China.”<\/p>\n
“We would very much like to stay in China, we would very much like the censorship which we oppose to not be in China,” he stressed.<\/p>\n
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