It could be that he respects the laws of different countries.

Excuse me, but Elon called himself a free speech absolutist. How meekly that principle retreats when a government just tells him, "no!"

Right. It's not "free speech absolutism" to let a dictator push you around with what speech your very principled platform puts on, is it?

Twitter used to fight those, as I mentioned. And won a lot of them. Again: what of Musk? Surely it's not just an act and he's a simp for dictators.

Fight those, so long as they were trying to take down left-wingers, right?

Unless you have information I do not, you have no idea the content of those requests. But given the list of countries that Twitter refused demands from, I am willing to guess that no, it's not all requests aimed at your ideological brethren.

Also ‘cis’ is banned for being a slur.

as it should be imho. the way lgbtq use that term is usually hateful.

Which is beautifully ridiculous. Are any real slurs banned there?

Previously people were banned for tweeting (...sorry x-ing): "men are not women". Twitter is the same anti-free-speech cesspool, just different management.

> Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

Under Twitter’s previous ownership, the social media site complied with government takedown requests at a lower rate.

Twitter fully complied with 440, or 50 percent, of requests and partially complied with 377, or 42 percent, during the 12-month period before Musk’s takeover.

Turkey was also the biggest source of these requests at 27 percent, followed by South Korea with 20.6 percent and India with 12.8 percent.

- https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...

I personally get both sides; at least the JP branch of Twitter was messing a lot with trends and pushing weird left-wing extremisms. That stopped because JP branch stopped existing. On the other hand, he's started running ethnic cleansing on the platform, so yeah it's what you said as well.