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Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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They should just shut their dev center in India and ask staff to relocate. The government can easily block them, but the optics of that would not look right. So this whole play around law and regulations.

India could prohibit companies doing business in India from doing business (read: advertise) on Twitter. That's the real threat.

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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>> The move comes as tension escalates between the Indian government and Twitter. Google, Facebook, and several other firms have partially or fully complied with the IT rules, which among other things, requires any significant social media firm (any firm with over 5 million users in India) to appoint a chief compliant officer, a resident grievance officer, and a so-called nodal contact person to address on-ground concerns.

FB, Google have appointed the chief compliant officer, but why Twitter doesn’t want to do it?

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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>> The move comes as tension escalates between the Indian government and Twitter. Google, Facebook, and several other firms have partially or fully complied with the IT rules, which among other things, requires any significant social media firm (any firm with over 5 million users in India) to appoint a chief compliant officer, a resident grievance officer, and a so-called nodal contact person to address on-ground con…

> chief compliant officer

A very appropriately worded title

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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They should just shut their dev center in India and ask staff to relocate. The government can easily block them, but the optics of that would not look right. So this whole play around law and regulations.

What it has to do with dev center? Their work is for global twitter platform.

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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It boggles the mind that companies such as twitter would even own offices in corrupt countries such as india. Its a question of time until the government will want to grab some of the sweet sweet money from them, and such measures are only the beginning: bully them a bit until they "sponsor" the right politicians.

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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Twitter is put on par with newspapers, because they do gatekeeping and have accepted bias.

Twitter can not have the cake and eat it too.

There is nothing sinister just the laws kicking in.

You wouldn't want google manipulating search results and then claim to be neutral.

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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It boggles the mind that companies such as twitter would even own offices in corrupt countries such as india. Its a question of time until the government will want to grab some of the sweet sweet money from them, and such measures are only the beginning: bully them a bit until they "sponsor" the right politicians.

It's like in China where you have limited ownership of the company. But still, any % of whatever the big country is willing to give you, you take it because it raises the valuation of your company, so and so.

Re: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

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>> The move comes as tension escalates between the Indian government and Twitter. Google, Facebook, and several other firms have partially or fully complied with the IT rules, which among other things, requires any significant social media firm (any firm with over 5 million users in India) to appoint a chief compliant officer, a resident grievance officer, and a so-called nodal contact person to address on-ground con…

FB and Google are already overflowing with enough Modi worshiping Brahmins.

Anyway who wants the job? Other than the ignorant or crazy no one will apply.

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