Brazil files injunction request against Twitter

A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments’ requests.

Brazil files injunction request against Twitter

Last month, Twitter unveiled plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

“As far as we know this is the first time that a country has attempted to take Twitter up on their country-by-country take down,” said Eva Galperin of San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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