Tweeter Can Now Filter Content Worldwide

This is a sad news that tweets will be filtered for political correctness. I think this has to do more with the money that can be made from the chinese market which currently blocks all content of tweeter. Tweeter is not concern with people communication as much as it does with advertising revenue.  We have learned through crisis after crisis in the Middle East, China, Russia and else were that as long as there is no political filtering on communications  people will still get through with their message.
The following is Raw Story reporting on the event. af*

by Wikepedia

"Twitter said Thursday that it now has the ability to block tweets from appearing in a specific country if legally required to do so."

“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter said in a blog post.

“Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there,” the San Francisco-based company said.

Twitter said Thursday that it now has the ability to block tweets from appearing in a specific country if legally required to do so.

“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter said in a blog post.

“Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there,” the San Francisco-based company said.

“We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld,” it said.

Twitter said it would post details of any incidents involving the removal of content to ChillingEffects.org, a public database of takedown requests.

“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user?s voice,” Twitter said. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can’t.”

China, notably, blocks Twitter, a situation which Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey described recently as “unfortunate and disappointing.”