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Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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post #7

The ruling party released a fake document, suggesting that the opposition is engaging in subversive activities. It was fact checked by various independent agencies and found to be a fake document. Twitter added a "manipulated media" label to those tweets. Delhi police, which is directly controlled by the Indian government raided the office of Twitter. It is not done with the intention of finding anything. It is to ha…

Maybe Twitter shouldn't get in the middle of these types of things.

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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post #7

The ruling party released a fake document, suggesting that the opposition is engaging in subversive activities. It was fact checked by various independent agencies and found to be a fake document. Twitter added a "manipulated media" label to those tweets. Delhi police, which is directly controlled by the Indian government raided the office of Twitter. It is not done with the intention of finding anything. It is to ha…

Who knows what data they might try to harvest in the process. It’s a scary situation. Hopefully Twitter has good safeguards against such tactics.

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

#13
post #7

The ruling party released a fake document, suggesting that the opposition is engaging in subversive activities. It was fact checked by various independent agencies and found to be a fake document. Twitter added a "manipulated media" label to those tweets. Delhi police, which is directly controlled by the Indian government raided the office of Twitter. It is not done with the intention of finding anything. It is to ha…

What is up with the comments in this thread? How are people seeing this as the Indian government taking a stand against censorship or whatever? The same government is upset that Twitter reinstated several accounts critical of the administration.

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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post #10

I'll preface this by stating that me and my family, and the huge number of like-minded people I am aligned with, have -- for generations -- been the most law-abiding, compliant, quiet, respectful and hard-working people in our communities. What I am about to write is absolutely without precedent, and should therefore be terrifying... The Quislings in the spineless political class in the United States and Canada have…

How exactly is this connected to TFA?

The fact that this is news at all, is how.

The local presences of these companies should have been sued into oblivion in every law-abiding nation by now, at their first refusal to support Canadian and US free speech rights. If they didn't comply with the order to maintain that nation's citizen's rights, they should have been disabled at the border.

If Google, Twitter, etc. are satisfied to only operate in lawless regimes (eg. North Korea), then they can carry on with their present behavior. To operate in our law-abiding nations, they should be minimally be expected to operate according to the law of the land, which is circumscribed by the Constitution/Charter.

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How exactly is this connected to TFA?

The fact that this is news at all , is how. The local presences of these companies should have been sued into oblivion in every law-abiding nation by now, at their first refusal to support Canadian and US free speech rights. If they didn't comply with the order to maintain that nation's citizen's rights, they should have been disabled at the border. If Google, Twitter, etc. are satisfied to only operate in lawless re…

I am beginning to doubt you actually read the article. In any case, are you trying to compare India to North Korea?

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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Delhi Police served a legal notice to Twitter India, it was not a raid https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/toolkit...

> Delhi Police, controlled by India’s central government, on Monday evening searched two offices of Twitter — in the national capital state of Delhi and Gurgaon, in neighboring state of Haryana — to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets by ruling partly BJP spokesperson as “manipulated media.” > An hour into the search process, Delhi Police Special Cell team, which investigates te…

...surprise visit?

...unexpected company?

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

#17

Delhi Police served a legal notice to Twitter India, it was not a raid https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/toolkit...

> Delhi Police, controlled by India’s central government, on Monday evening searched two offices of Twitter — in the national capital state of Delhi and Gurgaon, in neighboring state of Haryana — to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets by ruling partly BJP spokesperson as “manipulated media.” > An hour into the search process, Delhi Police Special Cell team, which investigates te…

Yes. Otherwise, an e-mail to Twitter's attorneys would have sufficed.

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

#18
There is a saying in India "उल्टा चोर कोतवाल को डांटे", i.e. "a thief accusing the sentry".

There are very few(handful) media houses in India that stand against current Central Govt. politics in India.

If Govt. of India doesn't like Twitter policies, it's free to block it or create it's own propaganda machine.

Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

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I'll preface this by stating that me and my family, and the huge number of like-minded people I am aligned with, have -- for generations -- been the most law-abiding, compliant, quiet, respectful and hard-working people in our communities. What I am about to write is absolutely without precedent, and should therefore be terrifying... The Quislings in the spineless political class in the United States and Canada have…

Are you confusing Facebook, Google and Twitter for the government? Otherwise I can’t understand how you conclude that free speech rights are being violated.
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