censorship requests by authoritarian governments. it sensors bans and content in india and turkey. this is something the previous leader of twitter have also done along with other social media companies, but let s go deeper. twitter does it more under musk. and the year before his takeover, twitter agreed to about half of government censorship requests that it got. that number now up to 83%, significantly higher in musk s first six months. now, elon musk does not deny this. instead, the self-proclaimed free speech protector says he s just doing what he s told by the dictators. quote, we can t go beyond the laws of a country. as the right of had wing applause faded, even some conservatives are hitting him for, quote, bowing down to dictatorship. that s a fox news item right there. musk has proven to be at best a fair weather fan of free speech and press.