Censorship: Twitter bends to India and limits access to critical tweets
Twitter rarely misses an opportunity to bow to a government when it wants to enforce censorship, or when it comes to silencing critical voices in general. Hidden in an Associated Press article about the furious pandemic and the Indian government's failures are these few lines on Twitter:
“ On Saturday, Twitter accepted the government's request and blocked people in India from viewing more than 50 tweets that seem critical of the administration's handling of the pandemic. The targeted posts include tweets from opposition ministers critical of Modi, journalists and ordinary Indians ”.
The article quotes Twitter as claiming it has the power to " deny access to content in India only " if the company has determined that the content is "illegal in a particular jurisdiction." Furthermore, it can set quantitative limits on the basis of the contents: obviously one cannot know much. So Twitter agreed to become an arm of the government in information censorship, preventing Indian citizens from having a complete idea of what the opposition is saying.
This is not "fake news", but efforts by journalists and other public figures to reveal government failures that could cost hundreds of thousands of lives. however, for Twitter this does not count: the important thing is to please the Modi government, even if at this stage it appears incapable and confused.
This is the face of the new censors. The future in speech control is not in the classic state media model, but in the alliance of various state governments with corporate giants like Twitter. Twitter now actively engages in what Democratic leaders are approvingly calling "robust content editing" to control views and political dissent.
We can tell you that soon this will change, however, because we have had direct news on the organization of a new alternative social media, with adequate resources, complete security, and which should be available soon. Stay tuned
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