before musk, twitter was able to leverage its international fame and able to reject such blanket requests based on merit. governments had to risk looking bad for blocking twitter fully (esp relevant to turkey due to EU pressure). after musk, it seems to have gone fully complacent to censorship.
Reposted from Yaman Akdeniz
1. Even though Elon Musk's X states that "X will always fight for free speech and people's right to express themselves," X then arbitrarily censors hundreds of accounts belonging to students and civil society subject to copy & paste decisions in Turkey over the last few days. x.com/GlobalAffair...

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