Twitter Blocks over 500 Accounts at India’s Request, Then Changes Course (Twitter: inciting violence is okay because we are about free speech)

Breitbart ^ | February 10 2021 | GABRIELLE REYES

[knighthawk]

witter said on Wednesday it would not fully comply with an Indian government order to suspend hundreds of accounts accused by New Delhi of spreading misinformation and inciting violence in the nation’s ongoing farmers’ protests. It made the statement after blocking over 500 accounts last week.

“We have withheld a portion of the accounts identified in the blocking orders … within India only. These accounts continue to be available outside of India,” Twitter wrote in a blog post on February 10. “Because we do not believe that the actions we have been directed to take are consistent with Indian law, and, in keeping with our principles of defending protected speech and freedom of expression, we have not taken any action on accounts that consist of news media entities, journalists, activists, and politicians.”

“To do so, we believe, would violate their fundamental right to free expression under Indian law,” the social media platform added.

[knighthawk]

“To do so, we believe, would violate their fundamental right to free expression under Indian law,”

Like that stopped you from banning so many conservatives or burying the Hunter Biden story!

[KDF48]

Does Twitter keep victims from pornographers and sex trafficers? Or is that their postitutional reason for isolating the conservatives for censorship? Payday someday.

[Dutch Boy]

I work with a regulatory agency in India. They are not like other countries. They will pull the plug on Twitter for the entire country if they desire.

[BobL]

Your turn, India. Cancel them, or suck up to them. No middle ground.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“Because we do not believe that the actions we have been directed to take are consistent with Indian law

Nothing more likely to p*** off a government and its people than some foreign corporation telling them that it knows their laws better than they do. Twitter is cruising for a hard fall - if it takes foreign governments to do it, so be it.