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If India requires twitter murder a child every time someone tweets, I sure hope they don't just say: "Well, I guess that's just their way of life" and continue operating.

Obviously India is requiring no such thing, but what about when China wants google to build them a censored search engine?

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If you're to use a hyperbolic example, at least use a plausible one.

Equating posting anything online to child murder as an acceptable act undoes any sort of point you could be legitimately making.

I don't understand your point. Murdering children is an unequicoval act of heinous evil, deleting posts from your website is a shady business decision.

Where do you draw the line? Lots of people would say that heavily silencing government criticism is evil. Not heinous evil, but can't we be mad at boring evil?

I didn't say not to be mad at anything, it just seems absurd to compare murdering innocents to twitter hiding tweets in one region.

But this isn't "heavily silencing government criticism". Only 50ish tweets were blocked, for containing misinformation that was intended to cause a panic. That's illegal per Indian laws. Criticizing the government is not illegal, and is allowed. If the government were really "heavily silencing government criticism", we would be seeing millions of tweets and accounts being blocked and censored. Instead, it's a narrow targeted set that did things like use images from other circumstances to make it seem like they were part of the COVID situation.

I'm not really focused on this incident, but the idea that it can be a serious issue for major platforms to control speech.

Google will roll up their sleeves and get the IOT guillotine ready, happily running all their american leftie-progressive marketing back home while they do so. Why not? Apple did it!

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