There are plenty of examples of Elon Musk's hypocrisy, but this is not one of them. He has always said that intended to comply with the laws of any country.
He's the one that made the incompatible promises that Twitter will be "free speech absolutist" but at the same time will follow the laws from your average corrupt and fascist government.
Er, is that what he claimed? All I've seen is:
> By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
> I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
Which this is - for better or worse - in line with.
Ultimately, the conception of free speech is rooted outside of legal standards and closely related to universal human rights.
They are following Indian censorship laws for Indian IP addresses.
Not sure if that's the hill they went to die on, but sure there's an argument they should try anyway. Google tried to resist the Chinese gov early on then shut down the entire service there when that became infeasible (which went well beyond taking down a couple links).
Twitter probably has a long existing framework in place with each region legal system and the degrees to which they will listen to it. And India isn't exactly a North Korean type dictatorship where companies would normally disregard their demands out-right.
Maybe this will bring attention to that issue. I'm happy people are holding Elon Musk to account on free speech, even when most people are just doing just to spite him.
> ... Sorry to be a free speech absolutist
> Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.
Any country? Such as the Principality of Sealand? Or Liberland?
I think the second approach is right even if the request were “innocuous”.