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Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Post by jtsiskin »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

India is actually a democracy. For better or worse, I think India has the right to determine censorship policies for its citizens. Foreign Western corporations deciding that they know better than the Indian government and using their platform to spread dissent against the elected government is not a good look for a Western corporation given the history of British East India company.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944

“Earlier this month, in its annual report on global political rights and liberties, US-based non-profit Freedom House downgraded India from a free democracy to a "partially free democracy". Last week, Sweden-based V-Dem Institute was harsher in its latest report on democracy. It said India had become an "electoral autocracy". And last month, India, described as a "flawed democracy", slipped two places to 53rd position in the latest Democracy Index published by The Economist Intelligence Unit.”

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Post by hashhar »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

India is actually a democracy. For better or worse, I think India has the right to determine censorship policies for its citizens. Foreign Western corporations deciding that they know better than the Indian government and using their platform to spread dissent against the elected government is not a good look for a Western corporation given the history of British East India company.

Pretty sure what you are saying is the opposite of democracy. Free speech is democracy - censorship is not.

Or have they succeeded in redefining it in school textbooks now?

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Post by jansan »

Of course they do, they are willing servants of the governments. They also do not permit retweeting or liking a tweet by Martin Kulldorff because he states his scientific opinion that not everybody has to be vaccinated.

https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/13716384856863580...

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Post by connectsnk »

galtwho wrote: post #3

Few of the tweets removed are detailed here https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/covid-pandemic-hoax-to-shari... Ps : the usual propaganda site or govt mouthpiece claims are bound to come out now. Read the article and make up your mind

This is the only unbiased comment which actually shows the tweets which were deleted instead of just presenting a conclusion

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Post by aravindet »

galtwho wrote: post #3

Few of the tweets removed are detailed here https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/covid-pandemic-hoax-to-shari... Ps : the usual propaganda site or govt mouthpiece claims are bound to come out now. Read the article and make up your mind

Opindia is a well-known source of right-wing disinformation. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia

> OpIndia is an Indian right-wing news portal founded in 2014 by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal. The website has published fake news and anti-Muslim commentary on multiple occasions, including a 2020 incident in which it falsely claimed that a Hindu boy was sacrificed in a Bihar mosque.

> OpIndia is dedicated to criticism of what it considers "liberal media", and to support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hindutva ideology. According to University of Maryland researchers, OpIndia has shamed journalists it deems opposed to the BJP, and has alleged media bias against Hindus and the BJP. In 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) rejected OpIndia's application to be certified as a fact checker. IFCN-certified fact checkers identified 25 fake news stories and 14 misreported stories published by OpIndia from January 2018 to June 2020.

The submitted URL from the wire.in has screenshots of the more significant tweets that were hidden in India despite not violating Twitter policies regarding disinformation.

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Post by ttt0 »

westmeal wrote: post #7
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

India is actually a democracy. For better or worse, I think India has the right to determine censorship policies for its citizens. Foreign Western corporations deciding that they know better than the Indian government and using their platform to spread dissent against the elected government is not a good look for a Western corporation given the history of British East India company.

How is it possible to have a democracy while censoring what your citizens can see?

According to some in the West, censorship is actually "saving democracy".
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