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Twitter announced on Thursday that it would begin restricting its users from writing about certain content in countries that do not allow free speech. The microblogging site said that as it continues to expand globally, it is compelled to restrict certain types of content "for historical or cultural reasons." For example, Twitter wrote in a blog post that due to historical reasons, France and Germany do not allow pro-Nazi content. It said it will now start reactively withholding content from users in a specific country, while keeping it available in the rest of the world. "We haven?t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld," Twitter wrote in the post. The news did not come without critics, and the freedom of information advocacy group Reporters Without Borders voiced its concerns to BBC. "In the bigger scheme of things it just opens up the floodgates," spo