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It feels fairly arbitrary from the outside because they complied with similarly gross takedown demands in Turkey and India;

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...

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The missing context here is that the "misinformation accounts" that X was supposed to remove here are spreading the right wing propaganda saying the election was stolen from far-right sweetheart Jair Bolsonaro. On the other hand, the requests in India and Turkey are coming from, you guessed it, far right sweetheart Modi and Erdogan governments.

If you think Elon is doing this to defend "freedom of speech" I have a beautiful bridge to sell you.

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