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Key points: Timeline for the report was the back half of 2020. India and the US were the top requestors for take downs. There are new laws in India and some
by baldeagle 5y ago
Key points:
Timeline for the report was the back half of 2020.
India and the US were the top requestors for take downs. There are new laws in India and some other countries regarding control of speech online.
I wonder if the US based takedown trends will continue into 2021 with the new administration.
- ntrz 5y agoThe article says Twitter ``declined to elaborate on which countries submitted the [journalist takedown] demands'' but that India and the US were the top sources of ``all information requests'', which is a more general category that also includes things like requesting a user's IP address, etc. I don't think it's necessarily true that the `information request' rankings match the journalist takedown request rankings. The takedowns aimed at journalists were only 2% of all the `information requests' they received, according to the numbers in the article (361 journalist requests, 14,500 total `information requests').
- murph-almighty 5y agoSo these "information requests" could be, say, checking a user's IP to track fake news?
- brandmeyer 5y agoThose information requests also likely include law enforcement investigations for a wide range of activities. Plenty of crooks get caught just because they blabbed about it on social media.