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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by OzyM on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:23AM (#27773152)
Super interesting Wikipedia article, thanks for the link! Some of the restrictions on free speech make me instinctually uncomfortable (i.e. restrictions for the sake of "decency and morality"), but I recognize these are hardly unique to India and countries such as the U.S. have censored plenty of books, etc. in the past.

I'm not sure that I personally am in favor. However, you're clearly right in that it's hardly unprecedented or unique.

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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by xxpor on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:53AM (#27773657)
>countries such as the U.S. have censored plenty of books, etc. in the past.

The modern interpretation of the 1st amendment as being fairly absolute is only 50-100 years old. Don't forget the federal government had political prisoners for protesting against the US getting involved in WW 1, and the HUAC and McCarthy hearings were blatantly unconstitutional under modern jurisprudence.

We don't even need to talk about the Alien and Sedition acts, passed right after the 1st amendment was ratified!

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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by pjc50 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:19PM (#27774099)
Or the Comstock acts. At one point it was illegal to distribute information on contraception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws#State_laws_on_bi....
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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by jbishop156 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:52PM (#27774639)
That's true. It did take the US 200 years to come to the correct interpretation of First Amendment being damn near absolute. Shameful as that delay was, we progressed in the right direction.
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