Forum Post: Twitter Censorship: Company Blocks Account For A Government For The First Time
Posted 11 years ago on Oct. 18, 2012, 2:35 p.m. EST by john23
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BERLIN (AP) — Twitter has for the first time blocked an account using a new tool that allows it to bar content in individual countries, shutting out a banned German neo-Nazi group at the behest of local authorities.
Twitter spokesman Dirk Hensen told The Associated Press in an email Thursday that the account (at)hannoverticker has been blocked only in Germany, where its content is considered illegal.
"At the beginning of the year Twitter announced the so-called 'country withheld content' function, which enables us to remove illegal content in a particular country while leaving it available for the rest of the world," he said.
"In doing this we place great value on transparency; in the case of the account (at)hannoverticker we used this function for the first time."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/nazi-twitter_n_1978103.html
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