Reporters Without Borders urge Twitter not to cooperate with censors

Maybe Reporters Without Borders wouldn't have been so much concerned if they knew how easy it is to change the country settings, which allows every user to circumvent the censorship of a country even if she currently tries to access the tweets there. The country variable is stored in a Cookie but can be altered very easily and the Cookie entry will be overwritten.

I changed my location to be "Egypt" (check your Twitter account settings and chose the country you like):

 

Reporters Without Borders :: Reporters Without Borders has written to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey voicing deep concern about yesterday’s announcement that Twitter will introduce geolocated censorship – censorship varying according to the social network user’s country location – and urging him to reverse a policy that violates freedom of expression.

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