The Kingdom of Thailand has agreed to Twitter's recent move to allow countries to censor tweets. Representatives from the Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have said that they will be working with Twitter to implement this new policy.

According to the Information and Communication Technology Ministry (ICT) permanent secretary Jeerawan Boonperm this move is in line with the Thai government's stance to protect the King from criticism of any sort. Technology minister Anudith Nakornthap said in an article in the Thai newspaper Bangkok Post that the new police was a constructive development and that Twitter "felt responsible to cooperate with governments to make sure basic rights are not violated through the use of social media."

The Thai government regularly blocks websites with anti-monarch content. The government contacted Facebook last year requesting the social media website to remove over 10,000 pages that criticizes the country's king and royal family. The government has also blocked YouTube from the country and has only recently made the video sharing site available again in Thailand.

In China, an editorial published Monday on the website of the state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times also praised the new policy.

"It is impossible to have boundless freedom, even on the Internet," the editorial read. "Twitter might have ... already realized the fact and made a choice between being an idealistic political tool as many hope and following pragmatic commercial rules as a company."

Meanwhile Twitter's Chief Executive Dick Costolo defended the new policy amidst rising criticism. The new censorship policy was meant to be a transparent way for Twitter to handle different government's requests for removing content. Costolo said the policy was a way for the social media service to exist in certain countries.

"There's been no change in our stance ... in respect to content on Twitter," Costolo said at the "Dive Into Media" conference hosted by the website All Things D. Under the new policy, Twitter can pull a tweet after a government request but the tweet will still be up in other countries. There will be a message to replace the pulled tweet that the content was removed at the request of the local government.

The new policy isn't a way for the company to get into countries where it isn't like China or Iran. "I don't think the current environment in China is one in which we can operate," Costolo said.