Twitter Cooperates With Vladimir Putin To Block Access To Blacklisted Content In Russia
On the heels of the announcement that Twitter archives would now be available in Russian comes an announcement from Moscow that Twitter has cooperated with Czar Vladimir Putin to block access to blacklisted content in his country.
According to The Moscow Times, Twitter has “actively been engaged in cooperation” since early March with Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications.
At the request of the information watchdog group, Twitter has already deleted one user’s account and restricted access in Russia to “five information materials” (yeah, we don’t know what that means, either).
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