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 first transparency report released for x

- covers the period between january and june 2024
- x suspended ~5.3 million accounts, compared to ~1.6 million during first six months of 2022
-  x removed or labeled more than 10.6 million posts for violating rules
- x received 18737 government requests for information and complied with 52.82% of those requests
- x received 72703 government requests for removals and complied with 70.82% of those requests

full transparency report: https://cdn.satellite.earth/cb7c069f8c5e4c4745aaf62a9f6e63ff1bb3f9435bc31d5085200056642a8ded.pdf 
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 Our relays should provide similar reports.
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 Glad I found Nostr 😁 
 HA! I’ll gladly use this dunk on idiots who think X has anything close to free speech 
 Sounds like a metric shit ton of censorship. 
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 How is a gov't request for removal not laughed out of the building?

I know this has been happening for years, but seeing the numbers is stunning. What a joke. 
 This is why we #nostr

Freedom.

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 X?  What is that anyway? 
 But I was told that Musk was the ultimate free-speech absolutist. I guess that only applies to speech he personally agrees with, and speech that doesn't anger his foreign allies.