Both Japan and South Korea made more legal demands for takedown of tweets than India (with Japan making 8 times more takedown requests than India). Are they also not democracies?

Source: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/removal-requests...

Given the fact that the LDP has been ruling Japan nationally for essentially 50 years uninterrupted and every single South Korean president resigned in disgrace, it's a better question that one would think.

Plenty of democracies have stricter stances on libel, which such a hashtag could be argued to be

What's the difference between #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide and #StopTheSteal from a free speech perspective?

My question exactly - I'd love to hear someone's take on this. Both are misinformation campaigns, and both result in violence.

I don't see why Trump should be banned but accounts tweeting that the government is planning a genocide should not (be banned). I'd say both bans were fair.

I think people are wary about a government making an official demand that content be removed. Trump's ban was entirely Twitter's own decision; by contrast, the Indian government seeks to compel removal of material.

I don't have a problem, per se, with governments having the ability to remove content from public platforms on public safety or security grounds. But the Modi government has also sought to remove content that's much less plausibly likely to inflame public violence, in particular related to its handling of COVID.

India might be an exception in that case. India has strong hate speech laws which are routinely used against journalists.