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Twitter is facing accusations of censorship in France after it reportedly took down four user accounts for impersonating French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Twitter is facing accusations of censorship in France after it reportedly took down four user accounts for impersonating French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Image credit: Downing Street/Flickr The digital rights group Internet Without Borders (Internet Sans Frontières) said on Sunday that the accounts were taken down after an account for the real Sarkozy went live on Wednesday, the day on which he officially announced his candidacy for re-election — voting will take place in April and May. The four accounts that Twitter suspended were, according to Internet Without Borders , all clear parodies and caricatures of Sarkozy, rather than genuine attempts at impersonation.
Twitter accused of censoring Sarkozy parody accounts | ZDNet UK
No Indian Government Shall Censor Social Media says Minister
India made headlines last week when Minister of State for Communications & IT, Sachin Pilot, said that online companies like Facebook and Google must comply with the country’s laws. His statement came one day after Google and Facebook revealed that they had in fact already removed content at an Indian court’s request. According to the Economic Times, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, has now said that social media in India would not face censorship.
Twitter geo censure
Twitter now says it has the technological ability to censor individual tweets or accounts in different countries. It hasn't yet pulled the trigger but the company said in a post Thursday that it will be able to remove content under the laws of another country. Those posts would still be viewable to Twitter users outside of those countries.
If required by law, Twitter says now ready to censor - CBS News
"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."
Twitter to begin censoring Tweets in certain countries - Telegraph
When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It’s #Outrage - NYTimes.com
But this week, in a sort of coming-of-age moment, Twitter announced that upon request, it would block certain messages in countries where they were deemed illegal. The move immediately prompted outcry, argument and even calls for a boycott from some users. Twitter in turn sought to explain that this was the best way to comply with the laws of different countries.Twitter could block super-injunction tweets - Telegraph
"But the policy as we announced was when we received a request [for censorship] from an authorised entity we will deal with those." "Our policy is, now that we have the ability to cater things to a particular jurisdiction, is to work through that on a case-by-case basis." To date Twitter has never received a super-injunction from the British courts, Mr Crowell added. Under its new system for restricting access to tweets, Twitter will still allow users to post any 140-character message they want online. However, if a tweet is reported by an "authorised entity" as in violation of local laws Twitter will restrict it so it is accessible only by international followers. The firm said it will notify both the writer and their followers it has intervened and tell them why.