Twitter restricts several high-profile accounts in India citing ‘legal demand’

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Twitter USA: Removes supreme leader from its platform.

Twitter India: Removes everybody who's against the supreme leader.

For all the recent complain about how twitter was "censoring" free speech, this is what real censoring looks like.

In India this is done with a government decree, in the USA I suspect this would have been done with a off-the-record phone call. The key difference is that Twitter doesn't care about Indian politics. In the United States Twitter is politically aligned with a faction of the power establishment. That's why you see a revolving door between Twitter execs and DNC administrations. Twitter is as politically independent from the USA government as Huawei is independent from the Chinese government.

more power to the worlds largest democcracy.... in other news private schools association moves SC for lifting the ban on 4G internet in kashmir which has been in place since 5 august 2019 and is still banned till 6 february http://www.kashmirtimes.com/newsdet.aspx?q=107465 https://kashmirobserver.net/2021/01/22/govt-extends-4g-inter...

well if the govt says internet is banned so guess what, it is and doesnt matter if lives are lost, careers are gone or education is shot to hell

For context, Caravan magazine, which had its account suspended, is something like the Atlantic in the US.

I am able to see the feed from India. Did they block them or block them from posting ? Is this their feed ? https://mobile.twitter.com/thecaravanindia

It was just restored.

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