Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

Re:Twitter has lost liability protection in India, governmen... by msravi on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:48AM (#27746577)

There is also the context that Twitter refused to remove blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets during the farmers' protests in which the Red Fort was breached similar to the Capitol Hill riots.

Also, more recently, Twitter has refused to remove clearly manipulated media intended to inflame Hindu-Muslim communal riots.

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Re:Twitter has lost liability protection in India, governmen... by kumarvvr on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:57AM (#27746648)

Somehow this does not register well with free speech enthusiasts. As much as twitter removes or labels one set of media, it also refuses to remove or label another set of media.

It is unfortunate that what is true and false has devolved into the hands of global corporates, whose interests and ideology is often different from the environment it operates in.

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Re:Twitter has lost liability protection in India, governmen... by sangnoir on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:19PM (#27753704)

> Somehow this does not register well with free speech enthusiasts

It registers fine. What you may be glossing over is that Twitter itself has free speech - so it is free to do this, unless you have something akin to a fairness doctrine.

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Re:Twitter has lost liability protection in India, governmen... by random314 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:58AM (#27750261)

Placement of a flag on an empty red fort is simply not comparable to a sustained attack and attempt to kill legislators on Capitol hill.

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