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Close up of tweets on World Economic Forum's Twitter page, displayed on screen 2. Mid of screen with WEF Twitter page 3. Wide of \"Social Media Corner\" at WEF forum 4. Wide of social media commentator Jeff Jarvis 5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDavos, Switzerland \u003cbr/\u003e1. Close up of tweets on World Economic Forum's Twitter page, displayed on screen \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of screen with WEF Twitter page \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of \"Social Media Corner\" at WEF forum \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of social media commentator Jeff Jarvis \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Jarvis, social media commentator:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm afraid it's a slippery slope of censorship. I understand why Twitter is doing this, they want to be able to enter in more countries and deal with the local laws. But as Google learned in China, when you become the agent of the censor, there are problems there.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of blogger Mike Butcher holding his laptop \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of laptop screen, Twitter page open\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Butcher, blogger:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Clearly there is a huge user backlash against this latest move by Twitter. It was seen as one of the few platforms that was free of any kind of censorship, heavily used by users in, during the Arab Spring for instance, and even in Russia lately over protests over the elections. It is also, to some extent, something that we could have predicted.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCairo, Egypt \u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of protesters in Tahrir square chanting (Arabic) ''Down down with the military rulers''\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of student and Twitter user Mohamed Gomma among protesters (wearing red jumper)\u003cbr/\u003e11. Gomma leading the chanting, UPSOUND (Arabic) \"We are the Egyptian revolutionaries and this is a no-touch zone. Down, down with the military rulers.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohamed Gomma, Twitter user and student:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I guess what Twitter is going to add to its website, from discrimination and privacy rules, more or less it's against human rights and shouldn't be applied to any social media or social broadcast. But I guess what happened is due to the Middle East and due to the reform and the revolutions everywhere, and not only United States but everywhere in the world are more or less afraid from social media and from broadcasts that will affect the congress, the parliament, everywhere, and the presidential elections everywhere, even in America, and in the upcoming elections of America, and that's why I guess they are adding such features to Twitter.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of protesters\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of Twitter user Mary Najib among protesters \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mary Najib, Twitter user: \u003cbr/\u003e''We carried out our revolution to regain our freedom in all formats in the media and social media. They want to block our freedom even on Twitter, the latest technology. We reject this! How we are going to express our demands? (Q: will there be much effect?). This will definitely affect the young people, this is a means of connecting with people.\" \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of protesters in Tahrir square ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003eTwitter users across the world reacted with dismay on Friday to the news that the website has changed its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.\u003cbr/\u003eMany people have expressed fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as the social media company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Twitter says the censorship tool is a way to ensure individual messages, or tweets, remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates different laws around the world.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, bloggers and journalists were tweeting the day's developments at a specially designed \"Social Media Corner\", indicating just how mainstream the social networking site has become as a way of sharing information.\u003cbr/\u003eSocial media commentator Jeff Jarvis said Twitter's announcement had set it on the \"slippery slope of censorship.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"As Google learned in China, when you become the agent of the censor, there are problems there,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eBlogger Mike Butcher said there was already a \"huge user backlash\" against the move, because Twitter had been seen as one of the few social media platforms that was free of censorship.\u003cbr/\u003eHe highlighted the use of Twitter by activists and protesters in the Middle East during the Arab Spring uprisings and during recent anti-government protests in Russia. \u003cbr/\u003eProtesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday said the changes to Twitter would restrict their freedom of expression.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's against human rights and shouldn't be applied to any social media or social broadcast,\" said student Mohamed Gomma.\u003cbr/\u003eGomma said he thought the reason for the changes was that governments across the world were \"afraid\" of the power of social media.\u003cbr/\u003e\"They want to block our freedom even on Twitter, the latest technology. We reject this!\", said another Twitter user, Mary Najib. \u003cbr/\u003eTwitter, which is based in San Francisco, is tweaking its approach now that its nearly 6-year-old service has established itself as one of the world's most powerful megaphones. \u003cbr/\u003eBefore, when Twitter erased a tweet it disappeared throughout the world.\u003cbr/\u003eNow, a tweet containing content breaking a law in one country can be taken down there and still be seen elsewhere.\u003cbr/\u003eTwitter will post a censorship notice whenever a tweet is removed. \u003cbr/\u003eThat's similar to what Internet search leader Google Inc. has been doing for years when a law in a country where its service operates requires a search result to be removed.\u003cbr/\u003eLike Google, Twitter also plans to the share the removal requests it receives from governments, companies and individuals at the chillingeffects.org website.\u003cbr/\u003eThe company came up with the new filtering technology in recognition that it 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