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Report: Twitter Reports Surge in Government Demands to Censor the News
breitbart ^
| 15 Jul 2021
| LUCAS NOLAN
Posted on 07/15/2021 2:44:21 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
According to data released by Twitter, the social media platform saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets. Legal demands to censor content from verified journalists and outlets grew by 26 percent in the second half of the year.
According to a recent transparency report from Twitter, it saw a surge in demands by governments worldwide to censor content from news outlets and reporters in 2020. Twitter said in its report that 199 verified accounts of journalists and news outlets on its platform faced 361 legal demands from governments to remove content in the second half of 2020, an increase of 26 percent from the first half of the year.
The biannual transparency report on Twitter’s enforcement of policy rules and the information and removal requests it receives comes as social media companies including Facebook and Google’s YouTube face scrutiny worldwide over the content allowed on their platforms.
India topped the list for information requests by governments in the second half of 2020, overtaking the United States for the first time.
Twitter said it globally received over 14,500 requests for information from July 1 to December 31 2020, and it produced some or all of the information in response to around 30 percent of the requests. These requests can include governments or other entities asking Twitter to reveal the identities of people tweeting under pseudonyms.
Twitter also received more than 38,500 legal demands to remove various content, a decrease of 9 percent from the first half of 2020. It complied with 29 percent of these demands. Twitter also noted in the report that its technology is proactively identifying more than 65 percent of abusive content for human review, rather than relying on reports submitted by Twitter users.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 1984; censor; censorship; freespeech; government; internet; policestate; socialmedia; twitter; tyranny
To: MarvinStinson
They don’t have to censor the MSM, they already censor themselves by rolling over to the (D)’s dictates and lying about conservatives and Republicans.
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posted on
07/15/2021 2:46:31 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Identify As Vaccinated)
To: MarvinStinson
Not that Twitter will not gladly comply, but under penalty of what if they refuse? The way I see it, money drives our supposed masters. It always has.
To: MarvinStinson
Maybe we need a constitutional amendment to allow for a free press.
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posted on
07/15/2021 2:49:11 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(We support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: MarvinStinson
Ohhhhhhh....WAIT! They just stuck their foot in it. They banned Trump and now they just handed him their heads on a silver platter:
“India topped the list for information requests by governments in the second half of 2020, overtaking the United States for the first time.”
Our government cannot do that. Period. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the government cannot lean on private groups to censor what is being said.
The only way this could be done legally is if it were illegal material. But we know from a lawsuit by a young man whose nude photos of him as a teenager were circulated on Twitter they do not necessarily remove that content. Even when requested by the family of said young man.
To: MarvinStinson
Imagine the apoplexy in media if President Trump’s White House was flagging content on Facebook for removal. That’s exactly what White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted today: “We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook“…
Yup, the Biden regime is monitoring social media from the White House and identifying content they do not like. Then, they flag that content and send it to Facebook, who then take action to remove it. WATCH:
On the upside – this is a direct admission the U.S. government is the determining voice on speech. That admission now makes this a FIRST AMENDMENT issue.
Previously the Democrats, leftists, media allies and the Biden administration all said Big Tech censorship, the banning of conservative voices/opinions, was a matter of private businesses making decisions on their own without government influence and therefore no ‘First Amendment’ issues are in place. This admission from the White House today is exactly the opposite. Let the lawsuits commence.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle
Disinformation or Misinformation doesn’t exist – there is just information that you accept, and information that you do not accept.
You were not born with the requirement to believe everything you are told. Rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive.
The Biden Administration is actively monitoring social media while the Trump Administration was banned from social media… The world has gone nuts.
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posted on
07/15/2021 2:55:34 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: MarvinStinson
It’s what Communist Governments do
To: Bratch
The Biden Administration is actively monitoring social media while the Trump Administration was banned from social media… The world has gone nuts.
To: MarvinStinson
A lotta election audit news in the pipeline, so Biden is getting ready to censor all this disinformation. Not to mention the increase in negative information about the various vaccines, their side effects, and the increasing deaths. Not what Biden needs, with all his other problems. So, censor it all!
To: MarvinStinson
Tired of the Goog tracking my purchases so I searched for some interesting devices that go boom for sale.
The Goog wanted to know my location. Never happened before.
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posted on
07/15/2021 3:14:10 PM PDT
by
OpusatFR
(RepoR)
To: MarvinStinson
To: MarvinStinson
I wonder what specifically is getting censored.
To: MarvinStinson
Legal demands to censor content from verified journalists Verified Journalists?
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posted on
07/15/2021 5:38:10 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(I will not do business with fascists)
To: MarvinStinson
From a poster “Hephaestion” on Instapundit:
See Norwood v. Harrison (1973) in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Government “may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”
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posted on
07/15/2021 6:11:34 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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