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> In the year prior to Musk taking control, Twitter agreed to 50% of such requests, in line with the compliance rate indicated in the company’s last transparenc

> In the year prior to Musk taking control, Twitter agreed to 50% of such requests, in line with the compliance rate indicated in the company’s last transparency report (none have been published since October 2022). Following the change of ownership, that figure has risen to 83%, according to the analysis of the data by the technology information portal Rest of World. Idk how the "analysis of the data" was done though

jruohonen 3y ago
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.
- jruohonen 3y ago
  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/ https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/
  - rhaway84773 3y ago
    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.
    - jruohonen 3y ago
      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-latest-transparency-report-shows-battle-in-misinformation-trenches https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/09/youtubes-late...

jruohonen 3y ago

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.

jruohonen 3y ago
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/ https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/
- rhaway84773 3y ago
  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.
  - jruohonen 3y ago
    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-latest-transparency-report-shows-battle-in-misinformation-trenches https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/09/youtubes-late...