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To characterize appointment of a legal compliance officer as "staffing requirements" is wrong. It makes it seem like India is forcing Twitter to hire local people.

If you are a global MNC with multi billion dollar valuation, and want to operate in a market that has a billion potential users, it is only fair that the company has a local presence.

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> If you are a global MNC with multi billion dollar valuation,

What if you're none of those?

Is it still fair to require a local presence for every single site / app / network to have access to a population?

The regulations only apply to platforms with at least 5 million registered users.

Fastmail, Disqus and a good chunk of subreddits could easily have 5 million registered users in India, and they are not billion-dollar MNCs (not sure about the valuation of the first 2)

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