Dan Gillmor
The birdsite's former management resisted censorship by foreign dictators, but under Musk India's right-wing regime gets yessir-yessir cooperation: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc/
Elon Musk Caves to Pressure From India to Remove BBC Doc Critical of Modi

Officials from India’s ruling right-wing party said American tech companies like Twitter and YouTube complied with demands to remove the documentary.

The Intercept
Jan 25, 2023 at 1:57amWeb
Show threadDan GillmorJan 25, 2023

Here's how Twitter's prior management (before Musk) fought censorship orders from the Indian regime: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/twitter-india-lawsuit.html

Musk is all too willing to cave in.

Twitter, Challenging Orders to Remove Content, Sues India’s Government

Twitter’s lawsuit is part of a broadening battle between the biggest tech companies and governments around the world over who gets to control information and how.

The New York Times
Show threadKanaMaunaJan 25, 2023

@dangillmor

Authoritarians are always bootlickers.

Show threadWill 🌹🏴Jan 25, 2023
@dangillmor I guess this is episode 7-or-whatever of the Twitter Files. Finally getting interesting
Show threadNothingToSeeHereJan 25, 2023
@dangillmor :eyeroll: Yep. Big bastion of free speech.
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Show threadSteve TorrenteJan 25, 2023
@dangillmor If he plays ball hard enough maybe he can make his money back in China.
Show threadRon Combs ✌️🖤 🎶Jan 25, 2023
@dangillmor you can take the boy out of apartheid but you can’t always take the apartheid out of the boy.
Show threadAgoraJan 25, 2023
@dangillmor so much grew speech!!
Show threadTammy GentzelJan 26, 2023
@dangillmor @gwaldby Wait, I thought he said he was the absolutist free speech guy?
Show threadPxtlJan 26, 2023
@TammyGentzel @dangillmor @gwaldby it was really just about hating trans people, of course.