Twitter has made changes to its policies and technology, such that it allows the company to showcase different content in different countries, keeping it in the clear with the laws of each country. The company states, in a post titled "The Tweets Must Still Flow" that it hasn't done anything yet, and intends to be transparent with users: We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld. As part of that transparency, we’ve expanded our partnership with Chilling Effects to share this new page, http://chillingeffects.org/twitter, which makes it easier to find notices related to Twitter. This announcement from Twitter reads like an invitation to censors. On the face of it, this is nothing new - Google does much the same. For example, in India, Google shows a different version of the map on Google Maps in line with the Indian governments policy, and also censors content and search results accordingly. Twitter, until now, had a single global policy and approach, which meant that if you were following certain users and tweets, they would have been accessible to everyone across the world. This meant that if Twitter was in violation of the local laws in a particular country, it could have been sued or blocked, and the company would not have been allowed to conduct business in the country, without…
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