- Gigaom, Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:26 PM
Twitter’s ability to block certain tweets or users from being seen in specific countries, a somewhat Orwellian feature it calls the “country-withheld
content” tool, seems to be getting more popular, according to the Chilling Effects clearinghouse, which tracks such things: tweets and/or users are now being blocked in Pakistan as well as Turkey, and a pro-Ukrainian
account is apparently unavailable to users who try to view it from inside Russia, at the request of the government.
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