As you might guess, the takedowns are almost exclusively DMCA notices from major copyright holders.

state of the pop music: "Is the Insufferable Karmin Run Already Over?"

"The hip crowds who liked the swagger of 'fake jazz' dematerialized in New York City rather quickly when the Lounge Lizards became more complex. The fault here would seem to lie with the audience, with the 'known world, basically,' with the kinds of audience members who wanted to 'sleep with' Lurie or 'punch him in the face,' which is to say the heartless and artless and celebrity-afflicted, the profile writers, the would-bes, but nevermind.
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"'Mystery illness' sounds a great deal like it is blaming the victim, an interpretation that becomes increasingly obvious when the day on which Lurie fell ill is more noteworthy, in Friend’s profile, for his concerns about penile size than his illness. ...Is there no attempt, by the reporter to look into chronic Lyme and to attempt to understand it? Are all sufferers with 'fibromyalgia' just neurotic women who need to lighten up and enjoy life?
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"Because strange details are a kind of modesty, they are Lurie refusing to dwell on the painful stuff in conversation. It’s in the music, yes, high feeling is always in the music, is always confronted there directly, not in words, but in music and its capacity for high feeling, and that is lost on Friend, because the music is lost on Friend, who considers it 'borderline annoying,' and undestined to sell lots of copies. More copies would mean more interest would mean closer to the movies, or a cinematic level of cultural penetration, which would mean bingo!"

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UK police already have powers under section 3 of Terrorism Act 2006 to give a notice to a hosting provider in the UK requiring the removal of material that encourages or glorifies terrorism, or of information that is likely to be useful to terrorism. The Select Committee heard that the Home Office Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, established in 2010, had received about 2,025 referals resulting in the issue of about 200 takedown notices.

forum stating takedowns by Crypton = true?

miku disappears from youtube, video on NND

Save Miku campaign landing page & database

So if someone posts a message that insults the monarchy of Thailand, which is punishable by a jail term, it will be blocked and unavailable to Twitter users in that country, but still visible elsewhere. What is more, Twitter users in Thailand will be put on notice that something was removed: A gray box will show up in its place, with a clear note: “Tweet withheld,” it will read. “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Thailand.” Think of it as the digital equivalent of a newspaper responding to old-fashioned government censorship with a blank front page. “We have always had the obligation to remove illegal content. This is a way to keep it up in places where we can,” said Alex Macgillivray, general counsel at Twitter. “We have been working on this awhile. We needed to figure out how to deal with this as a company.”