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A comment on Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments. Parent comment

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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