The problem of applying censorship to counter fake news is that the same thing can be applied to counter legit news as well.
So such a precedent should never be set.
The messages are used to legitimize people armed with daggers and sickles and machetes belonging to sundry outfits pouring out onto the streets and indulging in arson, rioting, and murder. The situation is not hypothetical.
Twitter itself, of course, does not take that philosophical position.
I think that cannot justify it. There are lines that should not be crossed, no matter what.
Because if some kind of unrest gives you the justification to take some freedom away from the people, then nothing is preventing you from staging such an unrest, and proceeding to do exactly what you wanted.
> legitimize people armed with daggers and sickles and machetes belonging to sundry outfits pouring out onto the streets and indulging in arson, rioting, and murder.
Also can you give be some proof that this was happening?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Farmers'_Republic_Day_pro...
The agitating protestors vandalised a DTC bus and police vehicles. According to the police, the protestors used sticks, iron rods, pelted stones, while some Nihang protestors rode on horses fully equipped with deadly weapons like swords, kirpans and fursas and some protesters even used their tractors to run over the police. Some protesters driving their speeding tractors rammed barricades and attempted to mow down the policeman on duty
Another example, another city, another social media post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bangalore_riots
But you were saying the farmers where indulging in murder.
so do you have a number (and source for the same), for how many were murdered by the farmers, during this event?
I said no such thing.