Twitter quietly restored a number of high-profile accounts in India it banned earlier, citing a “legal demand”, including Caravan and two politicians
TechCrunch Manish Singh
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@bhuvanbagga
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A source in India's IT ministry @GoI_MeitY on blocked tweets/ @TwitterIndia accounts: “MeitY directed Twitter to block around 250 tweets/ Twitter accounts which were using a hashtag and making fake, intimidatory & provocative tweets on Saturday, January 30.” 1/2
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@pranavdixit
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The Twitter account of The Caravan, India's leading investigative journalism magazine, has been withheld in India by Twitter “in response to a legal demand.” A source said that Twitter did not inform the magazine about the action. https://twitter.com/...
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@aatishtaseer
Aatish Taseer
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What @Twitter is doing in India, shutting down accounts on the government's behest, while apparently speaking truth to power in the US, is basically a modern iteration of the colonial mindset: freedoms are for us civilised folk, the natives be damned.
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@krishnan
Krish Subramanian
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Another example of not giving large corporations the right to arbitrate on the right to individual speech. They will collude with the government in power/political mood and not adhere to the rights offered under the free speech definition https://techcrunch.com/...
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@sanjukta
Sanjukta Basu
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Unlike United States, Twitter has historically miserably failed to perform the tiniest level of content moderation in India. Most trending topics in India appear either manipulated, paid for, vile, abusive, useless, out-dated or dangerous... https://techcrunch.com/...
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@vidyakrishnan
Vidya
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If you report on big tech in the US — the story you need to get on is the series of account suspensions in Indian by @Twitter of journalists including The Caravan & others critical of the Indian state. @TwitterIndia is aiding an authoritarian regime dismantle democracy.
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@bhuvanbagga
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“Incitement to genocide is a grave threat to public order and therefore the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) ordered for blocking of these Twitter accounts and Tweets under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act,” @GoI_MeitY source on blocked Twitter accounts. 3/3
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@bhuvanbagga
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“This was done on the request of Ministry of Home Affairs and law enforcement agencies to prevent any escalation of law and order in view of the on-going farmer agitation,” @GoI_MeitY source on blocked Twitter accounts/ Tweets. 2/3