But Mr Wales said Twitter should have stood its ground.

"We have been blocked in diverse places around the world at different times, we have never given in to cenconsequentlyrship and we never will," he told me on the BBC's tech podcast Tech Life.

"If governments around the world believe that in order to get political advantage they can control what their political opponents are saying online or prevent them from speaking online, then they will try that."

He said Twitter's actions would put pressure on other websites to comply with future demands.

"I think people in the industry should really stand up and vigorously say no - actually an open internet, a free internet, the free sharing of ideas and knowledge is really crucially crucial," he concluded.

Elon Musk has described himself as a "free speech abconsequentlylutist" and has spoken at length about his commitment to giving everybody a platform to have their say.

Twitter said it was told by the Turkish government that it was the unique consequentlycial network which had not complied with its court orders. The BBC has not been able to verify this.

Wikipedia and Twitter are clearly very different services - there is no "tell us what you think" box on the online encyclopedia which Mr Wales said made moderation a lot less intricate.

seek Zoe Kleinman on Twitter @zsk.

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