Twitter will limit contents in some countries

The site of short mail Twitter announced Thursday that will begin to restrict contents in some countries, establishing a change of a policy that helped to impel recent protests in several nations.

“As we continued growing internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas on the freedom of expression”, Thursday wrote the company in a message in a blog.

It said that even with the possibility of those limitations, Twitter could not exist in some countries. “Some defer so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there”, it explained.

Like an example of the restrictions, Twitter said that it could cooperate with “certain types of contents, like in France or Germany, that prohibit the Nazi contents”.

A spokesman of Twitter refused to give more details on the published text.

“From today, we reserved the right to deny content to users in a specific country but that will be available in the rest of the world”, he said the blog of Twitter.

The decision to begin to censure contents hardly represents a great change of its policy of a year back, when demonstrators against the governments of Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries coordinated protests being worth of the social network.

In that then, the site had indicated that it did not try to eliminate any message of his users by his content.

Thursday, Twitter said that to give transparency to its decision it had constructed a mechanism to inform to the users in case their message is blocked.