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Re:Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by author... by jruohonen on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:37PM (#36066810)
The relative shares are irrelevant. Instead:

"Since Musk’s takeover, the company has received 971 requests from governments (compared to only 338 in the six-month period from October 2021 to April 2022), fully acceding to 808 of them and partially acceding to 154."

A total of 971 requests is clearly a negligible amount for any platform with a global reach and a huge volume of content. Furthermore, among these requests is probably things that would be considered illegal also in terms of US law.

The analysis is probably based on the company's transparency report.

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Re:Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by author... by jruohonen on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:05AM (#36066957)
As someone downvoted me, let's put a little perspective to my argument: Facebook filed a total of 239,388 government requests to user data in Jul-Dec 2022. Orders of magnitude.

https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/

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Re:Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by author... by rhaway84773 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:28AM (#36068969)
And also completely different things. FB’s requests are for user data. Governments requesting user data is a completely normal thing (as long as it goes through proper legal means) since well before the internet even existed.

That’s completely different from government requests to censor information.

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Re:Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by author... by jruohonen on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:18AM (#36069818)
True enough. But I still consider <1000 censorship requests a small amount. For instance, the numbers for YouTube are staggering:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/09/youtubes-late...

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