Government Censorship Rising – Twitter

Twitter said in its first “transparency report” that the number of government requests for user information or to block content is rising in 2012.

“We’ve received more government requests in the first half of 2012, as outlined in this initial dataset, than in the entirety of 2011,” Twitter’s legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel said in a blog post.

The overwhelming number of requests came from the US, accounting for 679 of the 849 requests for user information. In 75% of the US cases, Twitter gave some or all information.