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January 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content
from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of
the world,” the Twitter blog continued.
Twitter’s decision to begin censoring content represents a significant
departure from its policy just one year ago, when anti-government protesters
in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries coordinated mass demonstrations
through on the social network and, in the process, thrust Twitter’s
disruptive potential into the global spotlight.
As the revolutions brewed last January, Twitter signaled that it would take a
hands-off approach to censoring content in a blog post entitled “The Tweets
Must Flow.”
“We do not remove Tweets on the basis of their content,” the blog post read.
“Our position on freedom of expression carries with it a mandate to protect
our users’ right to speak freely and preserve their ability to contest
having their private information revealed.”
And last year, Twitter General Counsel Alex Macgillivray declared that the
company was “from the free speech wing of the free speech party.”
In the interest of transparency, Twitter said Thursday, it has built a
mechanism to inform users in the event that a Tweet is being blocked.
Twitter’s move comes at a time when Internet companies such as Google and
Facebook have wrestled with foreign governments over freedom of speech and
privacy issues as they expand rapidly overseas.
In 2010 Google relocated its Web search engine to Hong Kong, following a very
public spat with the Chinese government over its refusal to bow to Beijing’s
Web censorship requirements and a hacking episode that Google said it had
traced to China.
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