Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party

Re:Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party by cokelee on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:26AM (#28155996)

Perhaps it will be easier for partisans in the US to rally in support of freer speech when the details of the situation are less familiar.

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Re:Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party by anoonmoose on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:37AM (#28156149)

Hmm, nope, I feel exactly the same on this topic that I did before. If India or Indians don't like the impact Twitter has on their internal politics they are free to ban or stop using Twitter as they see fit.

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Re:Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party by diegoperini on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:42AM (#28156217)

Terrible idea.

Punishing masses for crimes (if there is any) of individuals is a net negative. We had that in Turkey for years. Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia and hundreds of lewd sites are blocked with that mindset. Turkey is 80M people and the impact was huge and ugly. I can't imagine what will happen to India with 1.3B if mass bans become mainstream.

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