I don’t believe the the US government ever threatened to take Twitter down if it didn’t comply with their censor requests. It’s just that those requests happened to align politically with those running Twitter Trust & Safety.
My understanding is that Erdojan threatened to throttle the site for the entire country - a cost that maybe you or I may not have incurred if we were in that position.
At the very least, Twitter was transparent about the content restriction, which is certainly better than how the previous team operated.
Twitter used to reject more censorship requests. Now they're accepting more of them after Mr. Musk has become the owner.
I'm comparing Twitter pre-Musk vs Twitter post-Musk.
> Most alarmingly, 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.
My understanding is that Erdojan threatened to throttle the site for the entire country - a cost that maybe you or I may not have incurred if we were in that position.
At the very least, Twitter was transparent about the content restriction, which is certainly better than how the previous team operated.