Loretta Chao and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal

Twitter Can Censor by Country

January 27, 2012 at 5:30 am PT

Twitter Inc. says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression as a human right — reflecting the difficult ethical questions facing Internet companies.

The announcement, published on the official blog of the microblog operator, said Twitter is now able to withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available to the rest of the world.

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Tagged with: Amir Efrati, censorship, ethics, human rights, Loretta Chao, The Wall Street Journal, Twitter

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