Elon Musk x Twitter: The Joke that Keeps Giving
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Elon Musk’s Twitter has been fined with $30 billion in Germany (which is more than Twitter is currently worth) over Twitter’s repeated “systemic failures” to comply with Germany’s “hate speech” laws.
Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's Twitter could be on the hook for a pipeline of multi-million dollar penalties for failing to take down illegal hate speech in Germany.techcrunch.com
Is he obligated to regulate American company policies to reflect German laws?
He is obligated to comply to any local laws where twitter is available. The company being Murican, Japanese, Chinese, or Russian has fuck all to do with it.
what a joke
Turns out Musk is pro government censorship far more than the previous leadership.
Won't bother the supposed "free speech supporters" though.
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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By Russell Brandom
27 April 2023
- Since Musk took ownership, the company has received 971 government demands, and fully complied with 808 of them.
- Before Musk, Twitter's full compliance rate hovered around 50%; since the takeover, it is over 80%.
It’s been exactly six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising a new era of free speech and independence from political bias. But Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance — especially in countries such as Turkey and India.
The data, drawn from Twitter’s reports to the Lumen database, shows that between October 27, 2022 and today, Twitter received a total of 971 requests from governments and courts. These requests included orders to remove controversial posts, as well as demands that Twitter produce private data to identify anonymous accounts. Twitter reported that it fully complied in 808 of those requests, and partially complied in 154 other cases. (For nine requests, it did not report any specific response.)
Most alarming, Twitter's self-reports do not show a single request in which the company refused to comply, as it had done several times before the Musk takeover. Twitter rejected three such requests in the six months prior to Musk's takeover, and five in the six months prior to that.
More broadly, the figures show a steep increase in the portion of requests that Twitter complies with in full. In the year before Musk's acquisition, the figure had hovered around 50 percent, in line with the compliance rate reported in the company's final transparency report. After Musk's takeover, the number jumps to 83 percent (808 requests out of a total of 971).
The full dataset used in this reporting is available here.
The orders vary widely in scope and subject, but all involve a government asking Twitter to either remove content or reveal information about a user. In one case from January, India’s information ministry ordered Twitter to take down all posts sharing footage from a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Dozens of posts were removed, including one from a local member of parliament.
Turns out Musk is pro government censorship far more than the previous leadership.
Won't bother the supposed "free speech supporters" though.
"Free speech absolutist"
Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site Bellingcat days after Elon Musk suggested its Texas mall shooter investigation was a 'psyop'
Pete Syme
May 12, 2023, 7:52 AM EDT
Elon Musk and Eliot Higgins, the Bellingcat founder. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images; Pierre Crom/Getty Images
- The investigative news website Bellingcat reported on the Texas mall shooter's apparent neo-Nazi beliefs.
- Right-wing commentators on Twitter suggested that it was fake news, and Elon Musk called it a "psyop."
- Days later, Bellingcat's founder said its Twitter account no longer appeared in the app's search tool.
More free speech absolutism
www.businessinsider.com
'Free speech opportunist' Elon Musk caved to government pressure to censor tweets ahead of the Turkish election. Critics argue SpaceX dealings with the country's right-wing leader may have caused the reversal.
One day ahead of Turkey's closely contested presidential election, Twitter restricted accounts belonging to political dissidents and whistleblowers.
www.businessinsider.com
It’s censorship if they’re censoring the right.More free speech absolutism
'Free speech opportunist' Elon Musk caved to government pressure to censor tweets ahead of the Turkish election. Critics argue SpaceX dealings with the country's right-wing leader may have caused the reversal.
One day ahead of Turkey's closely contested presidential election, Twitter restricted accounts belonging to political dissidents and whistleblowers.
Not just rent
Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills, prompting concerns about what will happen to some of the services it hosts there, a report says
Since buying Twitter, Musk has embarked on drastic cost-cutting measures, including refusing to pay some bills.
www.businessinsider.com
Musk is tanking twitter at an impressive speed.
Feels like he's doing it intentionally. The fact that he's beholden to the Saudis in this deal is sus af.Not just rent
Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills, prompting concerns about what will happen to some of the services it hosts there, a report says
Since buying Twitter, Musk has embarked on drastic cost-cutting measures, including refusing to pay some bills.
Musk is tanking twitter at an impressive speed.
There's that theory, yeah, that he got twitter to intentionally tank it. I honestly don't believe it, I do genuinely think he's just a really dumb guy that got lucky because a) he got a better spawn point than virtually all of us and b) he's a master conman and manipulator.
Why did he suddenly turn into rabid right wing conspiracist as soon as he got a hold of twitter lol
