Mon 29 May 2023:
Twitter granted 83% of all requests from governments to censor or prohibit content overseas, including in Turkey and India.
Since Musk’s takeover in October 2022, the micro-blogging platform received 971 requests from governments (compared to only 338 in the six-month period from October 2021 to April 2022), according to a report in El Pais, a Spanish-language daily newspaper.
“The company fully acceded to 808 of them and partially acceded to 154. In the year prior to Musk taking control, Twitter agreed to 50 per cent of such requests, in line with the compliance rate indicated in the company’s last transparency report (none have been published since October 2022),” the report noted.
‘Rest of World’, a technology information portal, reports that since Musk’s acquisition, that percentage has increased to 83%.
A free speech, according to Musk, is simply speech that complies with the law, he claimed in April.
“I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask the government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people,” Musk posted on Twitter.
The departing Twitter CEO stated to the BBC last month that he would follow Indian law rather than put his employees in jail because of the nation’s “strict social media laws” rather than risk their arrest.
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