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Did you know that Musk is a former WEF Future Global Leader like Zuckerberg, Trudeau & Gavin Newsome?
Most people don't.
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Many newer foreign laws on censorship & "hate speech" are driving increased requests & higher compliance rates since Elon took over the twits.
Most of these requests have come from Turkey (491 out of 971 total) & Germany (255).
Maybe his hands are tied by these new laws & court orders that seem to show the world moving away from freedom of speech & respect for dissenting opinions.
I don't know what's going on other than worldwide, many govts have definitely moved leftward towards authoritarianism & away from individual rights.
Is Elon a good guy trying to do what's right while walking a tightrope or is he just part of the puppet show to keep us distracted & divided?
Personally, I guard my trust closely if I don't know you personally.
To put the data in context, Rest of World compared Lumen reports from Twitter’s Musk era (October 2022 to April 2023) against the previous two six-month spans. The results show government requests to Twitter more than doubling, from 348 to 971, when we compare Musk’s first six months to the same period a year earlier. There’s no similar increase in the number of resisted requests over that same period.
The rise in overall requests may have been driven by forces outside Twitter’s control. The bulk of the recent requests come from countries that have recently passed restrictive speech laws — most notably, India, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Germany, which generated 255 requests, recently increased enforcement after revisions to a 2017 law prohibiting hate speech and extremism.
Under previous ownership, Twitter actively resisted requests from many of these same regimes. For two weeks in 2014, the platform was banned from Turkey, in part due to its refusal to globally block a post accusing a former government official of corruption. (The executive who led that charge was Vijaya Gadde, one of the first executives fired after Musk took over.) In July 2022, the company sued the Indian government over an order to restrict the visibility of specific tweets. After Musk’s takeover, however, Twitter complied with more than 100 block orders from the country, including those against journalists, foreign politicians, and the poet Rupi Kaur.
“We can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” he said in a recent interview with the BBC. “If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we’ll comply with the laws.”
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Most people don't.
Elon Musk Is a Former Klaus Schwab WEF Young Global Leader
He seems to be making the right enemies in his bid for control of Twitter as both the U.S. government and hedge fund giant Vanguard have been making...
www.americaoutloud.com
Many newer foreign laws on censorship & "hate speech" are driving increased requests & higher compliance rates since Elon took over the twits.
Most of these requests have come from Turkey (491 out of 971 total) & Germany (255).
Maybe his hands are tied by these new laws & court orders that seem to show the world moving away from freedom of speech & respect for dissenting opinions.
I don't know what's going on other than worldwide, many govts have definitely moved leftward towards authoritarianism & away from individual rights.
Is Elon a good guy trying to do what's right while walking a tightrope or is he just part of the puppet show to keep us distracted & divided?
Personally, I guard my trust closely if I don't know you personally.
To put the data in context, Rest of World compared Lumen reports from Twitter’s Musk era (October 2022 to April 2023) against the previous two six-month spans. The results show government requests to Twitter more than doubling, from 348 to 971, when we compare Musk’s first six months to the same period a year earlier. There’s no similar increase in the number of resisted requests over that same period.
The rise in overall requests may have been driven by forces outside Twitter’s control. The bulk of the recent requests come from countries that have recently passed restrictive speech laws — most notably, India, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Germany, which generated 255 requests, recently increased enforcement after revisions to a 2017 law prohibiting hate speech and extremism.
Under previous ownership, Twitter actively resisted requests from many of these same regimes. For two weeks in 2014, the platform was banned from Turkey, in part due to its refusal to globally block a post accusing a former government official of corruption. (The executive who led that charge was Vijaya Gadde, one of the first executives fired after Musk took over.) In July 2022, the company sued the Indian government over an order to restrict the visibility of specific tweets. After Musk’s takeover, however, Twitter complied with more than 100 block orders from the country, including those against journalists, foreign politicians, and the poet Rupi Kaur.
“We can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” he said in a recent interview with the BBC. “If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we’ll comply with the laws.”
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk
The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data.
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