India's IT ministry orders Twitter to block the recently restored accounts of critics and The Caravan magazine, threatens Twitter staff with jail time or fines
India's government has threatened to punish employees at Twitter with fines and jail terms of up to seven years for restoring hundreds …
Honestly, the biggest thing about this was that Twitter actually seems to have stood up, for once. Twitter sent a response to the government after it met with officials declining to “abide and obey” the government's order. Has that happened before? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .…
🚨 Twitter's in a spot! If it reblocks accounts in India, it risks enabling a crackdown on dissent. If it doesn't, it faces a legal and political showdown in a major market. I scanned the govt's confidential notice to the company and broke it down here https://www.buzzfeednews.com…
Twitter also argued that there was “insufficient justification” to block entire accounts and said the government should have ordered individual tweets to be blocked. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
“Blocking the accounts would mean being accused of playing an active role in an ongoing crackdown on dissent in India. Letting the accounts remain on the platform means risking a political and legal showdown in a major market.” The quandary. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
The unfolding and fraught situation in India where the gvt is trying to strong-arm twitter to crack down on dissent should be getting way more attention https://twitter.com/...
For some time now, India's crackdown on dissent, and the role of ruling party figures in fostering hate-speech, have been shaping up as a major test for platform companies. The crunch, it seems, has now come. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
“India's government has threatened to punish employees at Twitter with fines and jail terms of up to seven years for restoring hundreds of accounts it has ordered the company to block” @PranavDixit writes. Most of them"were critical" of prime minister Modi https://www.buzzfeednew…