In an effort to continue expanding, Twitter will now begin a censorship program for tweets in certain countries. Twitter has always been proudly know for its freedom of speech propagation. Recently, however, feeling that there is more opportunities to tap larger profit pools, Twitter is going even more global.
To offer a more globalized Twitter, certain requirements are imposed by countries that restrict what people for the U.S. see as freedom of speech. Twitter explained that eventually they would have to enter "countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression." I want to know if this is Twitter changing their strategy to continually propagating freedom of speech, or of it is just modifying their definition. Or, is freedom of speech even part of their strategy?
For reference material, see the wall street journal's article titled, 'Twitter's Censors Provoke Backlash' January 28, 2012
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