After Twitter, Google bows to censorship laws

February 03, 2012 12:07

Google will now block posts or blogs from being available to users based on a country's local laws, in a move similar to Twitter's country-specific censorship that had sparked off an outrage among critics across the globe.

Google claimed that the move would actually allow more freedom of speech. The search giant said the blogs would be visible from everywhere else in the world, but invisible in one country.

Both Google and Twitter claimed that their move would simply allow their services to co-exist with other regimes, rather than being banned outright.

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