However, the tweets are still visible to the rest of the world.
They did this under their new Country Withheld Content feature, which allows for the removal of tweets that would be illegal, in that country.
In this situation the tweets were from a neonazi group that Germany banned from existing, on September 25.
Germany is thankful for Twitter's cooperation, in the matter.
Twitter feels that as the tweets are not blocked in the whole world, they have not infringed upon the freedom of speech or information.
It is the first time that Twitter has officially agreed to block or ban someone, though accusations have been leveled of them doing so before.
Unfortunately, once access to or dissemination of information becomes regulated, the REST becomes whimsical politi-fodder for whatever special interest groups, political message or "winds of change" are the voice of the moment. Rarely in history are these legislated regulation of liberty ever undone without a foreign power stepping in to remove the proverbial noose. Unfortunately, we (America) have typically been the only power to step up to the challenge, and we ourselves fall victim to this same mindset of "equality for all, agitation to none."
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