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…
Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label
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#12The 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…
Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label
#13The 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…
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#14I'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 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.
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#15Earlier 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…
Re: Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label
#16Delhi 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…
...unexpected company?
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#17Delhi 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…
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#18There 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.
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#20I'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…