Twitter,
the platform that many say was an
important tool in the Arab Spring uprising,
has decided that this open forum will change and start to use forms of
country-based censorship. This change has received a widespread backlash from
Twitter users and beyond.
"If
Twitter starts to censor, I'll stop tweeting." [Source:@jenmisstx]
As
announced on their official blog they
will now enable county specific censorship of
content on the site. Forbes describes this move as “social
suicide”. The post is titled “Tweets still must flow” and the
opening paragraph states:
Shut The Tweet Up? You’re Committing “Social Suicide”