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by rat87 1063 days ago
Twitter has been complying with more government censorship demands since the takeover including pre election censorship demanded by government of Turkey and banning a BBC documentary about Indian PM Modi. Before Musk Twitter often fought such requests in courts. But he did ban some journalists after they reported on him banning the Musk flight tracker account

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/tech/elon-musk-twitter-govern...

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Right, but was that the purpose of the $44b takeover? No it’s just something Elon did, in an interesting reverse on his whole “free speech” thing.

Again, I am certain this is incompetence rather than conspiracy