> In a court filing on Monday, New Delhi said Twitter has lost its immunity in India after the American social network failed to comply with the new local IT rules, which were unveiled in February and went into effect in late May.

This is even more worrying when the “laws kicking in” are laws the government passed unilaterally without discussion a couple of months ago precisely to prevent dissent on social media.

Further, let’s not ignore the elephant in the room. This is a government that has been absolutely pathetic when it comes to competent law making, whether you’re talking about demonetization, GST, or article 370 (which even if you may agree with the action on principle, the execution of which is an absolute sad joke, where the government has unnecessarily imprisoned the people of a state in their own homes for almost 2 years because they had absolutely no plan, and are now looking for a face saving way of backtracking from their actions).

Why is GST imllementation "pathetic"? Could you elaborate?

For one thing payment to state governments not ruled by the BJP the party at the center) have been indefinitely delayed. States have been complaining about this, they have lost significant revenue, and are practically held under ransom.

Sure, those sort of procedural things will be sorted out.

Overall, I see GST as a good thing.

And, for many years, investors from other countries complained about complicated business environment in India and wanted to reduce red tape.

Amalgamating the myriad of tax setups across various states, into one uniform tax code, I consider, is a good thing.

One man's 'procedure' is another's political vindictiveness. GST is how many years old now ? That should have been ample enough time to fix the problems that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

You challenged the notion that GST is a pathetically flawed implementation. So I gave you one. Rest is your call.

GST is a mix of a miserably poor implementation and crass political arm twisting by the party that holds sway in the center to force state governments run by opposing parties to fail.

Liability for published content isn't unusual or unprecedented. Twitter et al enjoyed unprecedented liability protection for a little while; I don't see how holding them to the same standard other companies are held is worrying.