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Jack Dorsey has publicly stated he capitulated to the Indian government to censor around the Farmers protests because the Indian government was raiding employees homes and threatening to shut down service in the country. [1]

1. https://time.com/6286814/india-twitter-jack-dorsey-clash/

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Temporarily complying then reverting the censorship in 2021 then suing the Indian gov in 2022 is not "capitulation".

Only recently did Twitter stop fighting back and Musk just announced it - it wasn't something hidden.

> Temporarily complying then reverting the censorship in 2021 then suing the Indian gov in 2022 is not "capitulation".

Capitulation is the cessation of resistance. It does not stipulate perpetuity. A person/entity can capitulate and then at a later point change their mind. This does not mean they never capitulated.

>Only recently did Twitter stop fighting back

Complying with censorship is not what I consider fighting back. Once you have aided the government in censorship at the moment when dissidents have the opportunity to create change, the damage is done.

>and Musk just announced it - it wasn't something hidden.

I did not state or imply that "it" was hidden.

1. That's not really "governmental collusion"?

2. Elon Musk: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

This whole Twitter Files thing was embarrassing mundane and the amount of censoring twitter does right now is 100x worse. Just look at the Turkish elections...

1. I didn't state that it was. I was replying to the individual who made the claim "There were cases of "report received and acted on", but no proof of "action forced even though employee disagreed".". The censoring of Indian farmers is the clearest example of this claim being false.

2. It is also bad when Elon Musk does it.

I am not interested in any back and forth of "well ackshually now its this percentage worse", I only have a desire for it to stop entirely.

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