As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.
—Twitter, sur son blog.
C’est un revirement majeur pour Twitter, qui avait affirmé sa détermination, il y un an, à résister toute entrave à la liberté d’informer sur son réseau, au moment des événements du printemps arabe.