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Musk decries government 'censorship.' His X has been more compliant

• hn_acker 2y ago
  The key paragraphs are: > The site acted on 71 percent of the legal requests it received to remove content in the first half of this year, up 20 percent from the last time it reported the figure in 2021 and more than double the rate in preceding years, according to a new transparency report X published Wednesday and a Washington Post review of past disclosure data. > As in past years, most of the removal demands came from a handful of countries, including Japan, South Korea and Turkey, which have each submitted thousands of requests. Much more often than not, they have been successful in persuading Musk’s X to remove or restrict content on the platform, the data show. ... > X’s Abboud said Japan has typically filed lawful and accurate requests, and because it submitted a majority of the overall global demands, it drove an uptick in the compliance rate. The report notes that X can object to “requests that are legally defective, overly broad” or that unduly burden free speech.
  • downrightmike 2y ago
    Title should be: Japan does all the paperwork and elon wants all the credit
    • hn_acker 2y ago
      I'm not sure what you mean by "all the paperwork", and I'm not sure what Elon would be wanting credit for, other than "my company's lawyers have been very careful when checking removal requests and demands". A government trying to remove speech _should_ be putting effort into filing paperwork with evidence that the speech is illegal, and the lawyers at Twitter/X have been filing their own paperwork to document the requests (and to reply to them).
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