Yoel RothApr 11, 2023

Globally restricting speech based on local legal demands (in this case, from India) is exactly as terrifying as @mmasnick makes it sound in this post. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/11/free-speech-twitter-is-now-globally-blocking-posts-critical-of-the-modi-government/

This was EXCEEDINGLY rare in the Twitter 1.0 days — I can think of a vanishingly small number of examples, all of which involved extensive litigation and pushback to avoid having to comply.

A dark day for free speech indeed.

‘Free Speech’ Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical Of The Modi Government

A few weeks ago we wrote about how Elon Musk’s Twitter was now blocking tweets in India at the request of the government. As we noted, there’s a lot of important history here. India had demanded su…

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@yoyoel @mmasnick Musk realizes that Twitter is basically dead in the West and Europe, and sees his only money-making opportunities elsewhere, so of course he'll cave to the ones who control his access to those markets.
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