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Re:Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasp... by cactusplant7374 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:04AM (#34611414)
How similar is it though? The US sent emails with suggestions to Twitter. Pakistan is threatening/will block Wikipedia.
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Re:Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasp... by Karsteski on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:11AM (#34611524)
What would have happened had Twitter not complied with said suggestions? To the company, to the executives, to regular employees?

The threat of that is very real.

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Re:Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasp... by ceejayoz on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:21AM (#34611687)
> What would have happened had Twitter not complied with said suggestions?

Twitter did exactly that in some cases, with no apparent repercussions.

In the most recent transparency report (https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/countries/us.htm...) Twitter declined ~30% of data requests from US government agencies.

They are also suing the government over NSLs; https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2014/taking-the-fi...

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