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Ninmi@sopuli.xyz to World News@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments

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Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments

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Ninmi@sopuli.xyz to World News@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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The social network has restricted and withdrawn content critical of the ruling parties in Turkey and India, among other countries, including during electoral campaigns
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  • A1kmmA
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    And most notably, 83% is up from 50% prior to him buying Twitter, so clearly there is a change in how much push-back requests are getting, rather than those being requests that might possibly be legitimate.

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    @Ninmi “freedom”

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    Another reason why Twitter sinks further.

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    Isn’t he this “free speech absolutist”? 😇

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