Twitter to censor messages on a country by country basis

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Twitter getting a new technology that's raising concern among its users the social media company -- now sensor messages on a country by country basis.

It comes as Twitter expands into new countries to broaden its audience.

Many users across the world saying twitters commitment to free speech may be weakening.

It was seen as one of the few platforms that was.

Three years of any kind of censorship.

Heavily used by uses injuring the Arab Spring for instance and that even in Russia lightning either participate in the elections.

Luckily there is going through -- try to switch sides from discrimination and why I'm not privacy rules anymore and I think again it's human rights.

-- -- being applied to an associate let me -- But the San Francisco based company says the additional flexibility with the censorship tool will make individual messages remain available to as many people as possible.

Before when Twitter -- to tweak it disappeared throughout the world but now it's we can be taken down in a specific country and still be seen elsewhere.

It is doing what it is supposed to do as any service does as it expands into each one of these countries.

And that is.

Who abide by the laws of the country.

US State Department says technology companies need to develop guidelines on freedom of expression.

And declines to evaluate twitters new policy but what we see here is a company.

Making very clear.

What it's.

Policies are going to be in these circumstances.

Until we see how they -- implemented.

And -- it impacts on contents we obviously can't evaluate whether.

This is you know we're a good thing not treatment for -- Twitter says it will post a censorship notice whenever -- is removed.

Coming also plans to share the removal requests from governments companies and individuals.

At a website called chilling at backstop pork.

In New York Melissa Francis Fox Business.

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