Twitter's Transparency Report Reveals Takedown And Information Requests
from the transparency-is-a-good-thing dept
We've been impressed with Google's ongoing transparency report efforts, and it appears that the folks at Twitter agree. The company recently released its own Transparency Report (and gave a hat tip to Google in the process). Like Google's report, Twitter's looks at how many requests for information it has received, as well as how many copyright takedown requests. The first chart it showed highlights how nearly all of the government requests for user info it receives comes from the US:Next up, Twitter showed how often it gets requests not to provide info, but to flat out remove Tweets (outside of copyright takedowns, apparently):
And, finally, they discuss copyright takedowns. This is actually an area where we've felt that Twitter doesn't always do a very good job, as there have been multiple stories of questionable DMCA-based takedowns.
We also receive a large number of misfiled, non-copyright complaints through our web form. We carefully review each report received, and follow-up with the reporter as appropriate.There may be room for improvement here, but it does appear that (unlike many companies), Twitter doesn't just roll over on every DMCA request.
Either way, it's great to see these kinds of transparency reports that really reveal some detailed info on just how often companies like Google and Twitter are asked to remove content or reveal info on users.
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If its a link to infringing material...again, the link itself isn't infringing (the material being held wherever the link sends you to is).
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In the US, corporations are people too. While they may live longer than you ever will, and be healthier than your health care may keep you, they can still have their poor corporate feelings hurt.
There needs to be a law to stop this disclosure of takedown and information requests!
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Corporations are persons under civil and criminal law in Canada as well. Note that I said persons not people. While there are obvious drawbacks to this, on the other hand there are plusses.
Things like you can actually file a lawsuit against a corporation or proprietorship where you can't if they're not recognized as "persons". How do you sue an inanimate object?
How do you charge a corporation and it's directors and/or executives if the corporation itself isn't a person under law? Enron plops to mind as does a recent leak or spew from an Enridge pipeline in the States. They need to be "persons" under law to charge them criminally, too.
As for having their little feelers hurt, like most of the rest of us, too bad. It's part of life. Most of the world, that is the world outside of the United States, doesn't sue other people or persons because they stubbed a toe. :-)
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Good on Twitter!
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Contempt of Court
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China not on the list
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