PM Narendra Modi’s government has repeatedly denied engaging in online censorship. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI - India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, co-founder Jack Dorsey said, an accusation the Indian government dismissed as an “outright lie”.
“It manifested in ways such as: ‘We will shut Twitter down in India’, which is a very large market for us; ‘we will raid the homes of your employees’, which they did; And this is India, a democratic country,” Mr Dorsey said in an interview with YouTube news show Breaking Points. “No one went to jail nor was Twitter ‘shut down’. Dorsey’s Twitter regime had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law,” Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrashekhar said in a post on Twitter.went on for a year and were among the biggest faced by the government of Mr Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party . The farmers ended the protests in late 2021 after winning concessions.
The Indian government says it only aims to restrict misinformation and posts that curb peace and security.
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