Twitter censors users for the first time

[The Patriot]

Twitter censors users for the first time

10-18-2012 08:56 AM

For the first time ever, Twitter censored a controversial account at the request of local government earlier this week. It was run by neo-Nazis. The ban, which is the first of its kind under a relatively new Twitter policy that gives the company "the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country -- while keeping it available in the rest of the world." As such, the ban*is only effective in Germany, however. The rest of the world is free to follow the bigots.




More...