Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-08-17 06:48:18 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 43F403648EC3381DB4D843BED7FCF3F8BD05ADE43A1DB3D3758C9B7256D860D8
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Original Note:
The countries given as examples are exclusively dictatorships or at least strictly authoritarian countries. This allows them to ban any website much more easily and without plausible reasons, as they have done many times before. Democracy-Index: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index Turkey: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/tech/turkey-twitter-restriction/index.html Russia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter#:~:text=On%2026%20February%202022%2C%20during,access%20Twitter%20via%20VPN%20services.
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