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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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It is 2021, we should have decentralised authenticated version of text board by now. All the bs about crypto disruption, but nothing for such simple case.

You can run your own software on your own server easily enough. Even easier to run the software of your choice on a rented server. Why do you think that you’re stuck with twitter?

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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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

The list of tweets removed are here: https://thewire.in/tech/as-covid-19-crisis-deepens-twitter-t...

Anybody with a VPN or is outside India can indeed read and make their mind up.

Edit: Every propaganda has an inkling of truth to it. That's why people believe it. And that's how everyone from Goebbels to the current Indian administration operate. Cherrypicking just the obviously fake ones to make your point is silly.

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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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

Incorrect, the original submission (thewire.in) reproduces several of the tweets.

Medianama, which covered this yesterday, chooses to _paraphrase_ the blocked tweets rather than quote them outright, likely in an attempt to avoid censorship demands. https://www.medianama.com/2021/04/223-twitter-mp-minister-ce...

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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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...

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Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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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 article is an odd choice, though, it's a site that claims to present the "marginalised" Hindu nationalist viewpoint. Very hard to take it seriously.

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Twitter will ban the American President but is afraid not to listen to the Indian government. I guess they choose what political parties they want to support.

Twitter waited until a couple of days before the president left office to do that, after waiting through years of flagrant rule violation, and until they were extremely certain of the way public opinion had swung. That was no act of courage from them, it was purely to try and manage public opinion.

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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post #21
post #12

It is 2021, we should have decentralised authenticated version of text board by now. All the bs about crypto disruption, but nothing for such simple case.

You can run your own software on your own server easily enough. Even easier to run the software of your choice on a rented server. Why do you think that you’re stuck with twitter?

I could also do that in 1975. But people use twitter.

Re: Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

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Have there been any other known cases of similar action around the world?

Banning certain tweets related to the Hunter Biden scandal.

Did the Hunter Biden story ever have any legs? As far as I can tell:

1. A grown man, who was not running for president, was doing drugs.

2. He was hired by company to try and gain favor with the White House, which backfired when the White House decided to act against their interest anyways (in other words the guy running for vice president didn't give the company a sweetheart deal because his son was on the board).

Why do people try so hard to force this story?

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