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"Free speech!" Meanwhile, Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

What of Musk? Could it be that he just likes strongmen and weird bigots, and it's for them he wants free speech, and everyone else can hang?

(Hint: it's this one.)

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> Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

Under Twitter’s previous ownership, the social media site complied with government takedown requests at a lower rate.

Twitter fully complied with 440, or 50 percent, of requests and partially complied with 377, or 42 percent, during the 12-month period before Musk’s takeover.

Turkey was also the biggest source of these requests at 27 percent, followed by South Korea with 20.6 percent and India with 12.8 percent.

- https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...

Also ‘cis’ is banned for being a slur.

Which is beautifully ridiculous. Are any real slurs banned there?

Previously people were banned for tweeting (...sorry x-ing): "men are not women". Twitter is the same anti-free-speech cesspool, just different management.

I personally get both sides; at least the JP branch of Twitter was messing a lot with trends and pushing weird left-wing extremisms. That stopped because JP branch stopped existing. On the other hand, he's started running ethnic cleansing on the platform, so yeah it's what you said as well.

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