According to the social network report, governments around the world have made 796 demands to take down content on Twitter in the last six months of 2014, up 84 percent from the first half of the year. Governments have also ramped up demands for user information, raising privacy concerns. Governments typically object to tweets that promote illegal drugs, voice dissent against the government, and defame private or public citizens, according to Twitter.
Demands to Censor Twitter Soar
